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Kali's Child, The Mystical and Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna
by Jeffrey J. Kripal
- CULTURAL PORTRAIT
- 1998
- PAPER
- 386 PAGES
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A scholarly analysis of the life and thought of a 19th century Bengali mystic, marked by critical acclaim and some controversy surrounding issues of gender and sexuality. Kripal demonstrates through textual analysis and psychoanalytic theory the centrality of desire -- and homesexual desire -- in the thought of this important Tantric mystic. For those with intellectual tendencies, this is good stuff.
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