Wandering with Sadhus

Sondra L. Hausner is University Lecturer in the Study of Religion at Oxford University. She grew up in Nepal, Bhutan, and Swaziland in a United Nations family. She lives in Oxford, United Kingdom.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Wandering with Renouncers1. The Body and Sadhu Society2. The Social Structures of Sadhu Life3. Hardwar: The Ground of Space4. Allahabad: The Community in Time5. Kathmandu: The Body in PlaceConclusion: The Culture of Hindu RenunciationAppendix: Literatures on Renunciation and EmbodimentNotesBibliographyIndex

"Wandering with Sadhus will be of interest to students and scholars who are interested in any of a number of subjects: meditation, yoga, sacrifice, Vedanta, gender, bhakti, pilgrimage, body, space, desire, and liberation. It will have broad appeal, and yet it treats its subject matter in depth. Beautifully written, it is also a wonderful contribution to the fields of anthropology and religion."—Lindsey Harlan, Connecticut College"Wandering with Sadhus is a nuanced, humane, and evocative study of Hindu renouncers in South Asia. It is also a theoretically powerful contribution to anthropological scholarship on bodies in culture, the intricacies of social organization in South Asia, and the lived practice of a complex religious system."—Ernestine McHugh, author of Love and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming to Know Another Culture"Will be of interest to students and scholars who are interested in any of a number of subjects: meditation, yoga, sacrifice, Vedanta, gender, bhakti, pilgrimage, body, space, desire, and liberation. Beautifully written, it is also a wonderful contribution to the fields of anthropology and religion."—Lindsey Harlan, Connecticut College