The Power of the Nath Yogis : : Yogic Charisma, Political Influence and Social Authority / / ed. by Eloisa Stuparich, Daniela Bevilacqua.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Bevilacqua, Daniela,; Bordeaux, Joel,; Bouillier, Véronique,; Hawthorne Higgins, Carter,; Jones, Jamal,; Marrewa-Karwoski, Christine,; Muñoz, Adrián,; Ondračka, Lubomír,; Stuparich, Eloisa,; Zotter, Christof,
• HerausgeberIn: Bevilacqua, Daniela,; Stuparich, Eloisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Society in Asia ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

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 the authors’...

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