Between Fear and Heroism: The Tantric Path to Liberation
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- Aleksandra Wenta
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- English
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- 2015
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Wenta examines fear as both a condition of bondage and a resource within Tantric accounts of liberation. Her discussion of Kālī and Kālasaṃkarṣaṇī draws on cremation-ground narratives and Krama materials to explain how confrontation with threatening experience becomes a model of expanded awareness. She also uses comparative theories of heroic transformation. The chapter connects goddess theology to a wider account of emotional change while remaining a modern scholarly interpretation of ritual and textual traditions.
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Between Fear and Heroism: The Tantric Path to Liberation
Author and date: Aleksandra Wenta • 2015
Publication: Routledge; institutional copy: Università degli Studi di Firenze, FLORE. In Purushottama Bilimoria and Aleksandra Wenta (eds.), Emotions in Indian Thought-Systems, chapter 3. Deposited corrected version paginated 114–133, followed by blank/running-header page 134; 21 PDF pages.
Language: English
Wenta examines fear as both a condition of bondage and a resource within Tantric accounts of liberation. Her discussion of Kālī and Kālasaṃkarṣaṇī draws on cremation-ground narratives and Krama materials to explain how confrontation with threatening experience becomes a model of expanded awareness. She also uses comparative theories of heroic transformation. The chapter connects goddess theology to a wider account of emotional change while remaining a modern scholarly interpretation of ritual and textual traditions.
Kali relevance: Substantive Kālī/Kālasaṃkarṣaṇī and Karavīra cremation-ground discussion, especially pp 117–121.
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Subjects: Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Philosophy, Theology, and Comparative Religion
Dates: Modern secondary scholarship; Modern published scholarly text; see publication date
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Verification and limits: Complete corrected author copy inspected. Production-header anomalies remain. The chapter’s comparative psychology is an interpretation; cited Sanskrit readings were not independently collated.
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Publication or repository record: https://flore.unifi.it/handle/2158/1211335
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Aleksandra Wenta. Between Fear and Heroism: The Tantric Path to Liberation. Routledge; institutional copy: Università degli Studi di Firenze, FLORE. In Purushottama Bilimoria and Aleksandra Wenta (eds.), Emotions in Indian Thought-Systems, chapter 3. Deposited corrected version paginated 114–133, followed by blank/running-header page 134; 21 PDF pages. 2015. https://flore.unifi.it/retrieve/e398c380-0830-179a-e053-3705fe0a4cff/2015_corrected_version_Between_Fear_and.pdf
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