Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement

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A study of the life, teachings, and following of Osho, most Americans today remember 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.
author
Hugh B. Urban
language
English
notes
Has extensive sections of Notes/references, Selected Bibliography and an Index.
see also
Expanding Mind - Global Osho Interview with Hugh Urban about the book on techgnosis.com with Erik Davis. (No 87 - Dec 22, 2016)
Review on Osho News

editions

Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement

Year of publication : 2016
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 978-0-520-28667-2 (click ISBN to buy online)
Number of pages : 264
Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P
Edition notes : © 2015 by The Regents of the University of California.
Size : 229 x 151 x 17 mm
  • p.000.06 - 07 Table of contents.

    p.000.06 - 07 Table of contents.

  • p.116 - 117.

    p.116 - 117.

  • p.118 - 119.

    p.118 - 119.

  • p.172 - 173.

    p.172 - 173.

  • Cover back.

    Cover back.

  • Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement

    Year of publication : 2016
    Publisher : University of California Press
    ISBN 978-0-520-28666-5 (click ISBN to buy online)
    Number of pages : 264
    Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H
    Edition notes : © 2015 by The Regents of the University of California.

    Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement

    Year of publication : 2016
    Publisher : University of California Press
    ISBN 978-0-520-96177-7 (click ISBN to buy online)
    Number of pages : 264
    Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : E
    Edition notes : © 2015 by The Regents of the University of California.