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پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
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0226895149
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9780226895147
Erroneous ISBN
0226895130
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9780226895130
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TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Sinister yogis /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
David Gordon White
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
Pbk. ed
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago, Illinois :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011, c2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxii, 352 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-335) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Tales of sinister yogis -- Ceci n'est pas un yogi -- Embodied ascent, meditation, and yogic suicide -- The science of entering another body -- Yogi gods -- Mughal, modern, and postmodern yogis
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Since the 1960's, 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 spirituality, and the true story of yoga's true 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 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 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 the Western stereotypes about them.--From publisher description
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Yogis-- India-- History
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
White, David Gordon
ORIGINATING SOURCE
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20130716015815.0
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