Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho MovementZorba 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 (1931Ð1990). Most Americans today remember him only as the Òsex guruÓ and the ÒRolls Royce guru,Ó 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 ReaganÕs 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. |
Contents
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh raises his hands | 4 |
Closeup of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh | 15 |
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff | 37 |
Rajneesh and Ma Yoga Laxmi | 40 |
Ma Anand Sheela | 41 |
Beware of Socialism The AntiGandhi and the Early | 49 |
Sannyasins during meditation | 59 |
Rajneesh disciples dance | 60 |
Nuke the Guru antiRajneesh Tshirt | 117 |
AntiRajneesh mock mala made of bullets | 118 |
Rajneesh security force officer | 125 |
Rajneeshpuram AIDS kit | 127 |
Federal marshals escort Rajneesh to bail hearing | 131 |
The Apotheosis of a Fallen Guru in 1990s India | 137 |
17 | 141 |
OSHO? The Struggle over Oshos Legacy | 155 |
Sexuality Tantra | 76 |
Thousands of tents fill fields at Rancho Rajneesh | 103 |
Ma Anand Sheela in red | 106 |
10 | 110 |
Ma Anand Sheela walks along as Rajneesh drives | 112 |
Disciples garland Rajneeshs RollsRoyce | 113 |
Swami Satya Vedant presenting Osho books to Narendra Modi | 162 |
Cartoon by Sudi Narayanan 2014 | 172 |
Notes | 197 |
Selected Bibliography | 237 |
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