Edward Dimock's The Place of the Hidden Moon, University of Chicago Press, 1966, is a scholarly study. Its strength is that it is a serious academic treatment of erotic mysticism in the Vaishnava-Sahajiya cult of Bengal, drawing on the tradition's own Bengali texts. Its limit is the ordinary one for a study now nearly sixty years old: later scholarship on Bengali Vaishnavism has continued to develop the field beyond what one 1966 monograph could cover.
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Reliability tier 1: a scholarly monograph from the University of Chicago Press drawing on the tradition's own texts, later scholarship having continued to develop the field beyond what this nearly sixty year old study could cover. NotesScholarly study of erotic mysticism in the Vaishnava-Sahajiya cult of Bengal, University of Chicago Press, 1966.
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AuthorEdward C. Dimock Jr.
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Publication Year1966
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names Chicago directly: "of the Hidden Moon, University of Chicago Press, 1966, is a scholarly study."
Source The Place of the Hidden Moon: Erotic Mysticism in the Vaisnava-Sahajiya Cult of BengalEdward C. Dimock Jr.
This source names Vaishnavism directly: "old: later scholarship on Bengali Vaishnavism has continued to develop the field beyond what one 1966 monograph could cover."
Source The Place of the Hidden Moon: Erotic Mysticism in the Vaisnava-Sahajiya Cult of BengalEdward C. Dimock Jr.
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