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Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement
Author Urban, Hugh B. (著)
Date2015
Pages264
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publisher Url https://www.ucpress.edu/
LocationOakland, CA, US [奧克蘭, 加利福尼亞州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteAuthor Affiliation: Ohio State University, USA.
AbstractZorba the Buddha is the first comprehensive study of the life, teachings, and following of the controversial Indian guru known in his youth as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and in his later years as Osho (1931–1990). Most Americans today remember him only as the “sex guru” and the “Rolls Royce guru,” who built a hugely successful but scandal-ridden utopian community in central Oregon during the 1980s. Yet Osho was arguably the first truly global guru of the twentieth century, creating a large transnational movement that traced a complex global circuit from post-Independence India of the 1960s to Reagan’s America of the 1980s and back to a developing new India in the 1990s. The Osho movement embodies some of the most important economic and spiritual currents of the past forty years, emerging and adapting within an increasingly interconnected and conflicted late-capitalist world order. Based on extensive ethnographic and archival research, Hugh Urban has created a rich and powerful narrative that is a must-read for anyone interested in religion and globalization.
Table of contentsList of Illustrations vii
Preface ix
Introduction: Gurus, God-Men, and Globalization 1
1. “India’s Most Dangerous Guru”: Rajneesh and India after Independence 25
2. “Beware of Socialism!” The “Anti-Gandhi” and the Early Rajneesh Community in the 1970s 49
3. “From Sex to Superconsciousness”: Sexuality, Tantra, and Liberation in 1970s India 76
4. “The Messiah America Has Been Waiting For”: Rajneeshpuram in 1980s America 101
5. “Osho”: The Apotheosis of a Fallen Guru in 1990s India 137
6. OSHO®? The Struggle over Osho’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century 155
Conclusion: The Spiritual Logic of Late Capitalism 179
Notes 197
Selected Bibliography 237
Index 247
DOI10.1525/j.ctt196322h
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