RE374 Lecture Notes - Critical Inquiry, Tabula Rasa, Vedas
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Recap: michel foucault - repressive hypothesis : idea that sex was okay then during victorian period, it became repressed. Not necessarily repressed, people changed the style of discourse. Sex should only be heterosexual, controlled, productive. State wants to know about sexual habits of its population. Confession - people talk about sex, regular thing to talk about sex, discourse became more private. How he thought of power - power controls sex, power has its own intentions, different results. People who had power had intention, but it didn"t have the intended result: prisons - creates more criminals, rather than stopping it. Power can produce sexuality/sexualities, no one set out to do it, Sex, secrecy, politics & power in the study of religion power"s own intention: colonialists and western religious studies scholars used the (so called) sexual immorality of indians to bolster own superiority and colonial rule, tantra. Bunch of sexual practices related to hinduism. Heterosexual sex practices, makes sex life better.
