RT Article
T1 Iogues indianos nas fronteiras do conhecível: performance e dissidência entre siddhas hindus = Indian Iogues nas fronteiras do conhecível : performance and dissidência between Hindu siddhas
JF Ciencias sociales y religión
VO 12
IS 12
SP 79
OP 106
A1 Tosta, Lena
LA Portuguese
PB Asociación de Cientistas Sociales de la Religión del Mercosur
YR 2010
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1784854859
AB A bill moved by the Indian congress at the dawn of the rising Nationstate, intended to purge the ambiguous elements among renouncers, inspires an initial debate on discourses and procedures regarding the registration and control of the institution of renunciation in India. The article argues that “untamed” asceticism suffered political and conceptual blackboxing throughout diverse historical situations, though it continues to offer a legitimate lived rhetoric of empowerment and emancipation. Based on Shiva and Dattātreya as mythical models and on ethnographic examples among nāgā sādhus who perform austerities, the text explores the concept of siddha, a yogi who has acquired creative powers. The articles suggests that the heterodox ascetic’s trajectory be seen as empowering, in accordance to its siddha and tantric cognitive matrix, and that the virtuoso’s performance “in the word” be understood as a dissident language in its own right.
K1 Dissident performances
K1 Indian asceticism
K1 politics of knowledge
K1 Siddhas entre nãgã sãdhus
DO 10.22456/1982-2650.12596