Hindu Tantrism

On the contrary, a certain variety of approach may serve as a means of convincing the student of the manifold and ever varying character of the conglomerate of religious traditions which we are wont to subsume under the term Tantrism.
This book tries to give an introductory survey of Hindu Tantrism. It is a product of joint effort. The three authors, although solely responsible for the parts written by them, have consulted together on the whole. This, they hope, has resulted in a certain levelling of differences of approach as well as in the purging, as much as possible, of mutual contradictions. Nevertheless, the reader will detect differences in the method of description and in the appreciation and selection of the sources; but in the authors' view this need not detract from the character of the book as a volume of the Handbuch destined for a general but scholarly introduction to the field.