Dark Webs: Tantra, Black Magic, and Cyberspace
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This article examines the changing nature of Tantra in digital era by focusing on three online tāntrik practitioners from Assam. The region Assam has a long reputation as quintessential “land black magic,” and this continued realm internet services. argues that these Assamese cyber-tāntrikas reflect at least key transformations practice representation Tantra. First, they represent profound challenge to traditional forms authority new kind authority—what Heidi A. Campbell calls “alogorhythmic authority”—whereby one gains status not through established religious institutions but rather amplifying power social media platforms. Second, ways which popular imagination been largely identified with magic also combined wide variety other magical practices around globe, most commonly (highly stereotyped) version Voodoo. Finally, “Americanized” Tantra, is defined primarily terms sex, love, romance—though uniquely Indian twist special focus dynamics marriage, family, caste relations.
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Hindu Studies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1022-4556', '1574-9282']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-022-09318-x