Citation

Elmore M. Religion Compass 2007; 1(6): 752-767.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1749-8171.2007.00041.x

PMID

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Abstract

Until recently the concerns of Sanskritists, esotericists, and philosophers have dominated the academic study of Hindu tantra. Now scholars increasingly focus on ritual practice, living traditions, and vernacular texts. These new concerns have radically recast how Hindu tantra and its impact on South Asian history are visualized. Where before scholars represented Hindu tantra as an elite discourse with little social impact, now many understand it as the warp on which South Asian history was woven.