Zorba the Buddha : sex, spirituality, and capitalism in the global Osho movement / Hugh B. Urban.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Urban, Hugh B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Osho, 1931-1990.

Osho.

Gurus--Biography.

Gurus.

New Age movement--Oregon--History--20th century.

New Age movement.

New Age movement--India--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Zorba 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 1980's. 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 1960's to Reagan's America of the 1980's and back to a developing new India in the 1990's. 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Gurus, God-Men, and Globalization

Chapter 1. "India's Most Dangerous Guru"

Chapter 2. "Beware of Socialism!"

Chapter 3. "From Sex To Superconsciousness"

Chapter 4. The Messiah America Has Been Waiting For"

Chapter 5. "Osho"

Chapter 6. OSHO®?

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520961777

0520961773

OCLC:

967256515