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Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna

Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna

Kripal, Jeffrey J.

Paperback

General Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 0226453774
ISBN13: 9780226453774
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 1 1998
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
In a book now marked by both critical acclaim and cross-cultural controversy, Jeffrey J. Kripal explores the life and teachings of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, a nineteenth-century Bengali saint who played a major role in the creation of modern Hinduism. Through extended textual and symbolic analyses of Ramakrishna's censored secret talk, Kripal demonstrates that the saint's famous ecstatic and visionary experiences were driven by mystico-erotic energies that he neither fully accepted nor understood. The result is a striking new vision of Ramakrishna as a conflicted, homoerotic Tantric mystic that is as complex as it is clear and as sympathetic to the historical Ramakrishna as it is critical of his traditional portraits.

In a substantial new preface to this second edition, Kripal answers his critics, addresses the controversy the book has generated in India, and traces the genealogy of his work in the history of psychoanalytic discourse on mysticism, Hinduism, and Ramakrishna himself. Kali's Child has already proven to be provocative, groundbreaking, and immensely enjoyable.

Only a few books make such a major contribution to their field that from the moment of publication things are never quite the same again. Kali's Child is such a book.--John Stratton Hawley, History of Religions

Winner of the American Academy of Religion's History of Religions Prize for the Best First Book of 1995

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