Sinister yogis

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Focuses on yoga's practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia's vast and diverse literature, this title discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their dangerous supernatural.



Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga's origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more entertaining than most of us realize. To uncover this history, David Gordon White focuses on yoga's practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia's vast and diverse literature, he discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their dangerous supernatural abilities - which can include raising the dead, possession, and levitation - to acquire power, wealth, and sexual gratification. As White shows, even those yogis who aren't downright villainous bear little resemblance to Western assumptions about them. By turns rollicking and sophisticated, "Sinister Yogis" tears down the image of yogis as detached, contemplative teachers, finally placing them in their proper context.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 30 maart 2011

Aantal pagina's: 376

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: David Gordon White

Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Chicago Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 16 mm

Product hoogte: 2 mm

Product lengte: 23 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 228 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 29 mm

Verpakking lengte: 228 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 568 g

EAN: 9780226895147

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