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Delomization, or the esoteric Nechung kang so, the Dalai Lama, and exilic imaginings of a Tibetan community

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
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Critical analysis of the Kularnava Tantra -Part 1- A foreword corrupted by repressed sexuality

Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
This article was written to promote academic research on the Kularnava Tantra without the bias introduced by the "forewords" and introductions of the English and Spanish versions, which led to confusion regarding the object of study known as Tantrism ...
Oscar R. Gómez
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Unlocking the Tyranny of Modern Thinking: Keys From Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Buddhism

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT One barrier to mental health and a common focus of psychotherapy is the tendency to identify with relentless, often self‐critical thinking that searches for faults, becomes easily distracted, and pulls individuals away from the present moment.
Barbara Carter
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Breathing Life Flows Through Chaos: Reconfiguring the Effectiveness of Five‐Finger Breathing in Mental Health First Aid

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This article questions the moral and causal certainties attributed to the clinical assumptions of the breath of chaos. Instead of seeing chaos as an exceptional intruder that causes problems in health, I suggest that chaos underlines the changing conditions of health and it's an intrinsic part of breathing and everyday life. I discuss the five‐
Yuxin Peng
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Strange Bedfellows: Meditations on the Indispensable Virtues of Confusion, Mindfulness and Humor in the Neuroscientific and Cognitive Study of Esoteric and Contemplative Traditions1

Religions, 2016
Several recent publications in the study of esoteric traditions have drawn together insights from scholars of religions and philosophy, contemplative communities, metaphor and conceptual blend theories, cognitive sciences, neurosciences, and physical ...
Jeffrey C. Ruff
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Anxious Projections: Mass Hysteria and the Problem of Interpretation

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract Stories of “mass hysteria” among teenage girls have often graced the headlines of Nepal's local and national newspapers, creating a public spectacle of a strange and mysterious form of affliction. Treatments include both shamanic rituals and psychosocial interventions, a new therapeutic modality that has gained prominence over the past two ...
Aidan Seale‐Feldman
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Antonio de Montserrat - The Silk Road and the Secret Paths of Tantra

Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
This article presents the biography of Antonio de Montserrat with the aim of situating him within Buddhist critical thought as the first Westerner initiated into tantric philosophy and a key figure in its introduction to the West through the Society of ...
Oscar R. Gomez
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Introduction: Convergences and religious change in Asian religions

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 258-267, August 2025.
Abstract This introduction to the special issue examines various approaches to understanding religious change in Asia. It revisits models for religious change—particularly rupture and repair, both featured in prior TAJA issues—and acknowledges their usefulness while also highlighting their limitations.
Kendall R. Marchman
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Tantric religion and social change

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 268-279, August 2025.
Abstract During the period between the seventh and 11th centuries, several religious innovations occurred in Indic religions (which I refer to anachronistically as ‘Hinduism’). In particular, during this period, we see the rise of tantric traditions based on a new revelation of texts, some of whose followers regarded themselves as transcending the ...
Gavin Flood
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Tantric Futures: Entanglements with Power, Labor, and More‑Than‑Human Worlds

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer
Informed by ethnographic fieldwork with humans, nonhumans, and the materiality of living traditions, this collection encourages comparative analysis, interdisciplinary collaboration, and cross-pollination among scholars of religion and Tantra across ...
Carola E. Lorea, Rohit Singh
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