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PhD Religious Studies University of Chicago
Masters Religious Studies University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Hugh Bayard Urban is a professor of religious studies at Ohio State University's Department of Comparative Studies and author of eight books and several academic articles, including a history of the Church of Scientology, published by Princeton University Press in 2012.

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Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion (2003) (107)
The Torment of Secrecy: Ethical and Epistemological Problems in the Study of Esoteric Traditions (1998) (71)
The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal (2001) (46)
Sacred Capital: Pierre Bourdieu and the Study of Religion (2003) (44)
The Cult of Ecstasy: Tantrism, the New Age, and the Spiritual Logic of Late Capitalism (2000) (42)
The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies (2009) (40)
The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion (2011) (39)
Contemporary Models of Psychotherapy: A Comparative Analysis (1998) (33)
Fair Game: Secrecy, Security, and the Church of Scientology in Cold War America (2006) (28)
Elitism and Esotericism: Strategies of Secrecy and Power in South Indian Tantra and French Freemasonry (1997) (26)
The Path of Power: Impurity, Kingship, and Sacrifice in Assamese Tantra (2001) (24)
Avatar for Our Age: Sathya Sai Baba and the Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism (2003) (23)
The Extreme Orient: The Construction of ‘Tantrism’ as a Category in the Orientalist Imagination (1999) (19)
The politics of madness the construction and manipulation of the ‘Baul’ image in modern Bengal (1999) (18)
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America (2015) (18)
"Magia sexualis": sex, secrecy, and liberation in modern western esotericism. (2004) (17)
The Marketplace and the Temple: Economic Metaphors and Religious Meanings in the Folk Songs of Colonial Bengal (2001) (15)
Making a Place To Take a Stand: Jonathan Z. Smith and the Politics and Poetics of Comparison' (2000) (15)
The adornment of silence: secrecy and symbolic power in American Freemasonry (2001) (15)
Zorba The Buddha: Capitalism, Charisma and the Cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1996) (15)
Songs of Ecstasy: Tantric and Devotional Songs from Colonial Bengal (2003) (13)
The Devil at Heaven's Gate: Rethinking the Study of Religion in the Age of Cyber-Space (2000) (13)
The Secrets of the Kingdom: Religion and Concealment in the Bush Administration (2007) (12)
The Power of the Impure: Transgression, Violence and Secrecy in Bengali Śākta Tantra and Modern Western Magic (2003) (11)
Matrix of Power: Tantra, Kingship, and Sacrifice in the Worship of Mother Goddess Kāmākhyā (2008) (11)
The Womb of Tantra: Goddesses, Tribals, and Kings in Assam (2011) (11)
The Beast with Two Backs: Aleister Crowley, Sex Magic and the Exhaustion of Modernity (2004) (10)
America, left behind: Bush, the neoconservatives, and Evangelical Christian fiction (2006) (10)
Secrecy and New Religious Movements: Concealment, Surveillance, and Privacy in a New Age of Information (2008) (9)
Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism (2006) (7)
The Occult Roots of Scientology?L. Ron Hubbard, Aleister Crowley, and the Origins of a Controversial New Religion (2012) (7)
Tantra, American Style: From the Path of Power to the Yoga of Sex (2012) (7)
Power Still Dwells: The Ethics and Politics of Comparison in A Magic Still Dwells (2004) (6)
The economics of ecstasy (2001) (6)
Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal: The Myth of the Goddess Sati (2020) (6)
“The Third Wall of Fire”: Scientology and the Study of Religious Secrecy (2017) (5)
“The Medium is the Message in the Spacious Present”: Channeling, Television, and the New Age (2015) (5)
Spiritual Capital, Academic Capital and the Politics of Scholarship: A Response to Bradford Verter (2005) (5)
The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences. By Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 400. $32.00 (paper). (2019) (4)
Songs of Ecstasy: Mystics, Minstrels, and Merchants in Colonial Bengal (2003) (4)
‘The Cradle of Tantra’: Modern Transformations of a Tantric Centre in Northeast India from Nationalist Symbol to Tourist Destination (2019) (4)
Self-Report Measurement of "Delinquent Orientation" in Institutionalized Delinquent and High School Boys (1975) (4)
Contemporary technology in the development of an optimal juvenile investigation (1974) (3)
Secrecy: Silence, Power, and Religion (2021) (3)
The poor company: Economics and ecstasy in the Kartabhaja sect of colonial Bengal∗ (1996) (3)
The strategic uses of an esoteric text: The Mahanirvana Tantra (1995) (3)
The yoga of sex: Tantra, orientalism, and sex magic in the Ordo Templi Orientis (2008) (3)
The Secrets of the Kingdom: Spiritual Discourse and Material Interests in the Bush Administration (2006) (3)
Machiavelli meets the religious right : Michael ledeen, the neoconservatives, and the political uses of fundamentalism (2007) (3)
Book Review:Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna Jeffrey J. Kripal (1998) (3)
Review essay. Syndrome of the secret: 'Esocentrism' and the work of Steven M Wasserstrom (2001) (2)
Dancing for the Snake: Possession, Gender, and Identity in the Worship of Manasā in Assam (2018) (2)
Kiss of the Yoginī: “Tantric Sex” in Its South Asian Contexts. By David Gordon White. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xx+372. $43.00. (2006) (2)
‘Secrets, secrets, SECRETS!’ Concealment, Surveillance, and Information-Control in the Church of Scientology (2017) (2)
The Remnants of Desire: Sacrificial Violence and Sexual Transgression in the Cult of the Kāpālikas and in the Writings of Georges Bataille (1995) (2)
Response to Bridging the Gap: Alternative Approaches (1974) (2)
Feasibility of an Automated Intake Procedure for Human Services Workers (1974) (2)
The Secrets of Scientology: Concealment, Information Control and Esoteric Knowledge in the World’s Most Controversial New Religion (2014) (2)
Desire, Blood, and Power:: Georges Bataille and the Study of Hindu Tantra in Northeastern India (2015) (2)
The Knowing of Knowing (2019) (1)
Dark Webs: Tantra, Black Magic, and Cyberspace (2022) (1)
Beware of Socialism (2016) (1)
Zorba the Buddha: The Body, Sacred Space, and Late Capitalism in the Osho International Meditation Resort (2013) (1)
4. Deodorized Tantra: Sex, Scandal, Secrecy, and Censorship in the Works of John Woodroffe and Swami Vivekananda (2019) (1)
Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred. By Jeffrey J. Kripal . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. xiii +332. $37.50 (cloth). (2012) (1)
PLAYING THE FIELD, TAKING A STAND: A REPLY TO SAM D. GILL (2002) (1)
Scholartracking: the Ethics and Politics of Studying "Others" in the Work of Sam D. Gill (2001) (1)
Teaching “Hindu Mysticism” (2011) (1)
Four. The “Cult of All Cults”? Scientology and the Cult Wars of the 1970s and 80s (2011) (1)
Caitanya Caritāmṛta of Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja: A Translation and Commentary. By Edward C. Dimock, Jr., with an introduction by, Edward C. Dimock, Jr., and Tony K. Stewart. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xxxv+1171. $95.00. (2003) (1)
Two. The Native American Church: Ancient Tradition in a Modern Legal Context (2019) (1)
Six. Rastafari: Messianism, Music, and Ganja (2019) (1)
Horrifying and Sinister Tāntriks (2021) (1)
The R&D Strategy as an Alternative to Program Evaluation Methodology. (1976) (1)
From the Songs of Ecstasy (2001) (1)
Songs of Ecstasy (2001) (1)
Paschal Beverly Randolph (2014) (1)
Life-history antecedents in psychiatric disorders of the aging. (1973) (1)
Millenarian Elements in the Hindu Religious Traditions (2011) (1)
6. The Goddess and the Great Rite (2019) (1)
The Goddess and the Great Rite: Hindu Tantra and the Complex Origins of Modern Wicca (2019) (1)
Conclusions and Comparative Comments (2001) (0)
Disinterested Judgement and Its Social Interests in Kant and Abhinavagupta: A New Approach to Comparative Aesthetics (1997) (0)
Appendix. Method and Theory in the Study of New Religions (2019) (0)
3. India’s Darkest Heart: Tantra in the Literary Imagination (2019) (0)
Preface, Acknowledgments, and Apologies (2019) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
ConclusionThe Lessons of King Lamus: Religion, Sexuality, and Liberation in a “Post-Orgy” World (2006) (0)
Chapter 4. The Messiah America Has Been Waiting For” (2019) (0)
Afterword (2018) (0)
Chapter 6. OSHO®? (2019) (0)
The Underworld of the Imperial City (2001) (0)
2. Sex Power Is God Power (2019) (0)
Secrecy (2021) (0)
Sinister Yogis. By David Gordon White. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 352+xxii. (2012) (0)
The Progressive “Exotericization” and “Institutionalization” Of an Esoteric Tradition (2001) (0)
Fourteen. The Raëlians: UFOS and Human Cloning (2019) (0)
From Sex To Superconsciousness (2016) (0)
Dysfunctional Systems: Understanding Pathology (2019) (0)
Symposium--the real world and the ivory tower. Dialectics of professional training, education, and delivery of services to elderly persons. Response to bridging the gap: alternative approaches. (1974) (0)
Religion, Secrecy and Security: Religious Freedom (2004) (0)
Nine. The Church of Satan and the Temple of Set: Religious Parody and Satanic Panic (2019) (0)
Eight. Wicca and Neopaganism: Magic, Feminism, and Environmentalism (2019) (0)
6. The Cult of Ecstasy: Meldings of East and West in a New Age of Tantra (2019) (0)
1. The Recurring Nightmare, the Elusive Secret (2019) (0)
Death, Nationalism, and Sacrifice (2018) (0)
The Religion of Man (Mānuṣer Dharma) (2001) (0)
1 The Recurring Nightmare , the Elusive Secret Historical and Imaginary Roots of Sex Magic in the Western Tradition (0)
Songs from the “Secret Marketplace” (2001) (0)
ConclusionReimagining Tantra in Contemporary Discourse (2003) (0)
JONATHAN Z. SMITH AND THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF COMPARISON1 (2016) (0)
2. Sacrificing White Goats to the Goddess: Tantra and Political Violence in Colonial India (2019) (0)
The Spirituality of the Subaltern (2001) (0)
Chapter 3. “From Sex To Superconsciousness” (2019) (0)
“India’s Most Dangerous Guru” (2016) (0)
Dark Webs: Tantra, Black Magic, and Cyberspace (2022) (0)
Secrecy and Symbolic Power in American Freemasonry (2001) (0)
The Messiah America Has Been Waiting For (2016) (0)
Three. Mormonism and Plural Marriage: The LDS and the FLDS (2019) (0)
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy (2022) (0)
Conclusion. New Religions, Freedom, and Privacy in the Post-9/11 World (2011) (0)
Twelve. Peoples Temple: Mass Murder-Suicide, the Media, and The “Cult” Label (2019) (0)
Four. Spiritualism: Women, Mediums, and Messages from Other Worlds (2019) (0)
Desire, Blood, and Power (2015) (0)
Review: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief written and directed by Alex Gibney (2017) (0)
Gender, Sexuality, and Secrecy (2022) (0)
Five. The Nation of Islam and the Five Percenters: Race, Religion, and Hip-Hop (2019) (0)
7. The Age of Satan (2019) (0)
8. Sexual Chaos (2019) (0)
Thirteen. The Branch Davidians: Millenarian Movements, Religious Freedom, and Privacy (2019) (0)
The Yoga of SexTantra, Kama Sutra, and Other Exotic Imports from the Mysterious Orient (2006) (0)
Introduction: Sex Magic, Modernity, and the Search for Liberation (2019) (0)
Introduction: Diagnosing the “Disease” of Tantra (2019) (0)
Appendix. A Timeline of Major Events in Scientology’s Complex Journey to Becoming a “Religion” (2011) (0)
The Church of Scientology (2016) (0)
The Beast with Two BacksAleister Crowley and Sex Magick in Late Victorian England (2006) (0)
1. The Golden Age of the Vedas and the Dark Age of Kàlí: Tantrism, Orientalism, and the Bengal Renaissance (2019) (0)
The "poor company" : secrecy and symbolic power in the Kartābhajā sect of colonial Bengal (1998) (0)
Conclusion: The Spiritual Logic of Late Capitalism (2019) (0)
The Language of the Mint (2001) (0)
Bush, the Neoconservatives, and Evangelical Christian Fiction (2006) (0)
Eleven. Channeling and the New Age: Alternative Spirituality in Popular Culture and Media (2019) (0)
PURITY (2021) (0)
India's Darkest HeartTantra in the Literary Imagination (2003) (0)
The Stinking Fruit in the Garden of Love (2001) (0)
Chapter 2. “Beware of Socialism!” (2019) (0)
Book Review:Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition: Studies in Western Esotericism Antoine Faivre, Christine Rhone (2002) (0)
Conclusion: The Lessons of King Lamus: Religion, Sexuality, and Liberation in a “Post-Orgy” World (2019) (0)
Six. Secrets, Security, and Cyberspace: Scientology’s New Wars of Information on the Internet (2011) (0)
Implementing Recent Innovations in Juvenile Justice (2009) (0)
Seven. The Church of Scientology: New Religions and Tax Exemption (2019) (0)
5. The Yoga of Power (2019) (0)
Improving counseling through research: The need for an engineering as opposed to a scientific strategy (1981) (0)
The Poor Company (2001) (0)
Chapter 5. “Osho” (2019) (0)
5. Religion for the Age of Darkness: Tantra and the History of Religions in the Twentieth Century (2019) (0)
Book Review:Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas David Kinsley (1999) (0)

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