The power of the Nāth yogīs : yogic charisma, political influence and social authority / edited by Daniela Bevilacqua and Eloisa Stuparich.
The volume collects a series of contributions that help reconstruct the recent history of the N.th tradition, highlighting important moments of self.reinterpretation in the "samprad.ya"?s interaction with different social milieus. The leitmotif tying together the selection of articles is t...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Religion and society in Asia.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Note on Transliterations
- Introduction
- 1 Current Research on Nāth Yogīs . Further Directions
- 2 Powerful Yogīs . The Successful Quest for Siddhis and Power
- 3 Kingly Corruption and Ascetic Sovereignty in the Telugu Account of the Nine Nāths
- 4 In Siddhis and State . Transformations of Power in Twentieth-Century Gorakhpur Temple Publications
- 5 The Search for the Jugi Caste in Pre-Colonial Bengal
- 6 Back When We Were Brahmins . Historical and Caste Critique Among Bengali Householder Nāths
- 7 Shades of Power . The Nāth Yogīs in Nepal
- 8 Yogī, Paṇḍit, and Rāṣṭra-Bhakta . Some Reconstructions of Yogī Naraharināth's Religious Career
- 9 The Evocative Partnerships of a Monastic Nāth Temple in Contemporary Rajasthan
- 10 Towards a Nāth Re-Appropriation of Haṭha-Yoga
- Index