Daniela Bevilacqua (681D-41F1-6F27)

Curriculum Vitae

Daniela Bevilacqua

Daniela Bevilacqua is a South-Asianist specialised in Hindu ascetic traditions, investigated through an ethnographic and historical perspective. She received her PhD in Civilizations of Africa and Asia from Sapienza University of Rome and in Anthropology from the University of Paris Nanterre. Her PhD research was published by Routledge under the title "Modern Hindu Traditionalism in Contemporary India: The Sri Math and the Jagadguru Ramanandacarya in the Evolution of the Ramanandi Sampradaya". She worked as a post-doc research fellow at SOAS, for the ERC- funded Hatha Yoga Project (2015-2020). During the years of the Hatha Yoga Project she engaged in long fieldwork researches collecting data about the physical yogic practices of current ascetic practitioners. This resulted in several articles on asceticism and a monograph which is going to be published in 2024 by Equinox, "From Tapas to Modern Yoga". She is currently a research associate at CRIA-Iscte - (Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia).

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Identificação pessoal

Nome completo: Daniela Bevilacqua

Nomes de citação

Bevilacqua, Daniela

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID: 681D-41F1-6F27
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0526-8140

Endereços de correio eletrónico

db28@soas.ac.uk (Profissional)
daniela.bevilacqua@iscte-iul.pt (Profissional)

Domínios de atuação

Ciências Sociais - Outras Ciências Sociais - Ciências Sociais Interdisciplinares
Ciências Sociais - Sociologia - Antropologia
Humanidades - Filosofia, Ética e Religião - Estudos da Religião

Idiomas

Idioma	Conversação	Leitura	Escrita	Compreensão	Peer-review
Italiano (Idioma materno)
Inglês	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Hindi	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador elementar (A2)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador elementar (A2)
Francês	Utilizador elementar (A2)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador elementar (A1)	Utilizador independente (B1)	Utilizador elementar (A2)
Espanhol; Castelhano	Utilizador elementar (A1)	Utilizador elementar (A2)	Utilizador elementar (A1)	Utilizador elementar (A1)	Utilizador elementar (A1)

Formação

	Grau	Classificação
2010/12 - 2015/04/29 Concluído	Dottorato in CIVILTÀ DELL’ASIA E DELL’AFRICA (Dottorato di Ricerca) Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Itália "A Past for the Present: The Role of the Sri Math and the Jagadguru in the Evolution of the Ramanandi Sampradaya" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
2010/12 - 2015/03/29 Concluído	Maison René-Ginouvès, Archéologie et Ethnologie (Docteur) Université Paris-Nanterre, França "A Past for the Present: The Role of the Sri Math and the Jagadguru in the Evolution of the Ramanandi Sampradaya" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	Très honorable
2007 - 2009/12 Concluído	Dipartimento Studi Orientali (Laurea Specialistica) Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Itália "Il movimento Ramjanmabhumi" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	110/110 cum laude
2002/10 - 2005/12 Concluído	Dipartimento Studi Orientali (Laurea) Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Itália "Nityasumangali, the ritual and propitious role of Devadasis" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	110/110 cum laude

Percurso profissional

Ciência

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2023/04/01 - 2029/03/29	Investigador (Investigação)	Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
	Instituto de Telecomunicações ISCTE-IUL, Portugal

Cargos e Funções

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2021/02/10 - 2021/05	Term-contract Lecturer	Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Culture Politica e Societa, Itália

Outros

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2020/09 - 2022	Research Associate	SOAS University of London, Reino Unido

Projetos

Bolsa

	Designação	Financiadores
2015/10 - 2020/09	The Hatha Yoga Project: Mapping Indian and Transnational Traditions of Physical Yoga through Philology and Ethnography info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/647963/EU Investigador Pós-doutorado SOAS University of London, Reino Unido	European Commission Concluído

Projeto

	Designação	Financiadores
2023/04/01 - 2029/03/31	Performing the Sacred: Ethnographies of Transgender Activism in the Kinnar Akhara 2022.03515.CEECIND/CP1758/CT0004 10.54499/2022.03515.CEECIND/CP1758/CT0004 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Em curso

Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista	Bevilacqua, Daniela. "The religious transfeminism of the Kinnar Akhara". Feminist Encounters (2024): Em revisão Daniela Bevilacqua. "Introduction". Journal of Yoga Studies (2023): https://doi.org/10.34000/JoYS.2023.V4.000. 10.34000/JoYS.2023.V4.000 Bevilacqua, Daniela. "From the Margins to Demigod: The Establishment of the Kinnar Akhara in India". Asian Ethnology 81 1/2 (2022): 53-82. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "The Life of Ramanandi Centres in Varanasi". Religions of South Asia 13 2 (2021): 130-159. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Changing the narration, adjusting the order: The independence of the Ramanandi sampradaya and the bestowing of the title of Jagadguru Ramanandacarya". Rivista degli Studi Orientali XCI 2 (2018): 13-26. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Old Tool for New Times: The Discovery of an Ancient Holy Site in Contemporary India". Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions 20 (2018): 45-66. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Let the Sadhus Talk. Ascetic understanding of Hatha Yoga and yogasanas". Religions of South Asia 11 2 (2017): 182-206. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Are women entitled to become ascetics? An historical and ethnographic glimpse on female asceticism in Hindu religions¿". Kervan International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies 21 (2017): 51-79. Publicado
Capítulo de livro	Bevilacqua, Daniela. "The Ascetic and the Ecstatic: Examples of Identity Construction in the Ramanandi Sampradaya". In The Monastic Dimension of Identity Politics Global Case Studies from the Premodern Period, editado por Marco Papasidero; Dean Accardi; Emilia Jamroziak. York, Reino Unido: ARC Humanities, 2024. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Towards a Nath Re-appropriation of Hatha-Yoga". In The Power of the Nath Yogis: Yogic Charisma, Political Influence and Social Authority. Amsterdam, Países Baixos: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. Aceite para publicação Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Observing Yoga: The Use of Ethnographic Methodologies to Develop Yoga Studies". In Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies, editado por Karen O’Brien Cop; Suzanne Newcombe, 393-408. Reino Unido: Routledge, 2020. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Globalization and Asceticism: Foreign Ascetics on the Threshold of Hindu Religious Orders". In Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society, editado por J. S. Cornelio; F. Gautier, 199-211. Routledge, 2020. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Evolution of Tradition in the Ramanandi Order. Among Hagiographies, Jagadguru and Math". In Invention of Tradition and Syncretism in Contemporary Religions: Sacred Creativity, editado por Stefania Palmisano; Nicola Pannofino, 69-89. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Do Not Ask About Caste If You Love God You Belong to God: The Ramanandi Sampradaya and Its Relation with Caste – A Historical and Anthropological Overview". In Cross-Cutting South Asian Studies, An Interdisciplinary Approach, editado por Serena Bindi; Elena Mucciarelli; Tiziana Pontillo, 80-115. New Delhi, Índia: DK Printworld, 2016. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Tra Tradizione e Modernità: Una Prospettiva Storica Sull'Ascetismo Femminile Hindu". In D come Donne D come Dio, editado por Stefania Palmisano; A. Giorgi, 155-168. Milano, Itália: Mimesis Edizioni, 2016. Publicado
Edição de livro	Bevilacqua, Daniela. The Power of the Nath Yogis: Yogic Charisma, Political Influence and Social Authority. Amsterdam, Países Baixos: Amsterdam University Press. 2021. Aceite para publicação • Editor
Edição de número de revista	Bevilacqua, Daniela; Mark Singleton. "Yoga and the Traditional Physical Practices of South Asia: Influence, Entanglement and Confrontation". Journal of Yoga Studies 4 2023 (2023): https://journalofyogastudies.org/index.php/JoYS/issue/view/2023.V4. Publicado • Editor Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Introduction". Journal of Yoga Studies 4 (2023): Publicado
Entrada de enciclopédia	Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Ascetic and Yogis. A plurality of affiliations, of social strategies, of life choice. Yoga and Dharma, confrontations and negotiations’". In The World of Yoga. History, Mutations, Modernity of A Wisdom, editado por Ysé Masqulier. Les Editions Albin Michel, 2021. Aceite para publicação Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Sadhus in contemporary India: Practices and Testimonies’". In The World of Yoga. History, Mutations, Modernity of A Wisdom, editado por Ysé Masqulier. Les Editions Albin Michel, 2021. Aceite para publicação Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Female ascetic and physical yoga practices’". In The World of Yoga. History, Mutations, Modernity of A Wisdom, editado por Ysé Masqulier. Les Editions Albin Michel, 2021. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "A general overview on the use of cannabis among ascetics". In The World of Yoga. History, Mutations, Modernity of A Wisdom, editado por Ysé Masqulier. Les Editions Albin Michel, 2021. Aceite para publicação Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Ramanandis". In Oxford Bibliography. Oxford Bibliographies, 2017. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195399318/obo-9780195399318-0197.xml. Publicado
Livro	Bevilacqua, Daniela. From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sadhus' Understanding of Embodied Practices. Reino Unido: Equinox Publisher. 2024. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. Modern Hindu Traditionalism. Routledge. 2018. Publicado
Revisão de livro	Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Richard Burghart 2015". Revisão de Richard Burghart. The History of Janakpurdham. A Study of Asceticism and the Hindu Polity (2020): 108-111. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Patton Burchett 2019". Revisão de A Genealogy of Devotion, Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India 188, (2019): 289-291. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "K. Narayan, 2016.". Revisão de Everyday Creativity. Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills (2018): https://newbooks.asia/review/everyday-creativity. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Nils Bubandt and Martijn van Beek 2015". Revisão de Varieties of Secularism in Asia, Anthropological explorations of religion, politics and the spiritual 23, 2 (2015): 227-228. Publicado Bevilacqua, Daniela. "Film review: Sex, Death and the Gods. Directed by Beedan Kidron". 1, (2013): Publicado

Artística / Interpretação

Exposição de curadoria/museu

2020. "Embodied Liberation, The Textual, Ethnographic and Historical Research of the Hatha Yoga Project. Brunei Gallery, London, UK".

Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

	Título da apresentação	Nome do evento Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2024/06/14	The childless ascetic, strategy to break samsarik chains	(Non-)Reproductive Matters: Global Perspectives on Religion, Gender and Procreation Tübingen University (Tübingen, Alemanha)
2024/06/11	The yoga(s) of the Nath Yogis. Ethnographic perspectives and re-appropriation of traditions	Lecture Goettingen University (Goettingen, Alemanha)
2024/05/24	To meditate, to stretch, to amuse: Thinking of asanas in terms of performance and performativity	Yoga Darsana, Yoga Sadhana 'Introspection, Inspiration, Institutionalisation’ Hamburg University (Hamburg, Alemanha)
2024/04/19	Tapobhumi, when the spiritual power saturates the landscape	49th Annual Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions Cardiff University (Cardiff , Reino Unido)
2024/03/21	The Female Ascetics in Indian Miniatures: Insights from Ethnography	A Multidisciplinary International Conference on Indian Ascetical Traditions: Texts, Rituals and Visual Culture Maharshi Dayanand University (Rohtak, Índia)
2023/11/27	From hippies to Hindu spiritual leaders: The rising career of foreigners in Hindu traditional orders	WebiNAR 11 Núcleo de Antropologia da Religião_NAR_CRIA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/05/26	Seminar: "The Ramjanmabhumi movement and its consequences"	University of Turin (Turin, Itália)
2023/03/02	Seminar: "Third gender in India", Kinnar and Hijra	University of Turin (Turin, Itália)
2021/07/26	When Gender Breaks Tradition: The Kinnar Akhara. Dynamics of Female Agency in Religious Settings in South Asia	ECSAS 2021 University of Vienna (Áustria)
2020/08	Hijras or Kinnars? Breaking Stereotypes to Conquer Social Status	Female Religious Leaders and Dynamics of Female Agency in Religious Settings in South Asia Cultural and Religious History of South Asia Department South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Alemanha)
2019/10/18	Towards a Nath re-appropriation of hatha-yoga	Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS) El Colegio de México (Mexico City, México)
2019/09/06	Lecture: Lo Yoga visto e praticato dai Sadhu	Master in Yoga Studies Università Ca’ Foscari (Milano, Itália)
2019/07/01	Lecture: Yoga practices of Hindu traditional ascetic sampradayas	Yoga Studies Summer School SOAS (London, Reino Unido)
2019/06/01	Lecture: Observing Yoga: The use of ethnography to develop yoga studies	Yoga Studies Summer School SOAS (London, Reino Unido)
2019/05/20	Lecture: Tra Ashrams e Mela, o del condurre lavoro etnografico tra i sadhu in India	Università degli Studi di Torino (Torino, Itália)
2019/04/30	Lecture: Yoga physical practices and female asceticism in India, a historical and ethnographic overview	Course: Yoga and Gender Study SOAS University of London (London, Reino Unido)
2019/04/08	Lecture: Fieldwork among Hindu ascetics: dealing with the rules and practices of a male dominating tradition	Department of Asian Studies, Haifa University (Haifa, Israel)
2019/04	Can women get moksha through asceticism? Ethnographic hints from the sadhus world	BASAS Conference (Durham, Irlanda)
2019/03/25	Lecture: Among Asrams and Melas, In Search of Sadhus and Yogic practices in India	Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Praga, República Checa)
2019/03/05	Lecture: Introduction to Hindu traditional ascetic sampradayas through yoga practices: an ethnographic approach	Indian Religions Seminar Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University (Cambridge, Reino Unido)
2019/03/02	La donna come pati-vrata (devota al marito) e il difficile cammino verso una pratica ascetica individuale	III Seminario su Donne e Religioni nel Mondo Contemporaneo (Lanuvio, Itália)
2018/12/09	Lecture: Simbologie Ascetiche. Quando l’abito fa il Sadhu	Simbologia del Vestire Course Faculty of Letters and Philosophy Sapienza University of Rome (Roma, Itália)
2018/11	The Ethnographic side of the Hatha Yoga Project: Learning from the practice and knowledge of Indian Traditional Ascetic practitioners	American Academy of Religious (Denver, Estados Unidos)
2018/09/09	Lecture: Let the sadhus talk. Lo yoga e l'hatha yoga spiegato e praticato dagli asceti tradizionali hindu	Master in Yoga Studies Ca'Foscari University (Milano, Itália)
2018/09	The Self and the Body of the Hindu Ascetic Yogi	Association of Social Anthropologist (Oxford, Reino Unido)
2018/09	Crossing Multifarious Realms by Forcing the Body: The Strenuous Austerities of Indian Ascetics	British Association for the Study of Religion (Belfast, Reino Unido)
2018/07	The Ascetic Self: Yogi Brahmananda Giri and the Construction of a Contemporary hagiography	European Conference on South Asian Studies (Paris, França)
2017/10/10	Yoga Among Indian Sadhus: Living Ascetic Practitioners of Yoga, Some Theoretical and Practical Insights	Beyond Asana: Asceticism, Alchemy & The Tangled Roots of Yoga. Lecture Series Rudolf Steiner House (London, Reino Unido)
2017/09	Old tool for new times: the rediscovery of ancient holy site in modern India	British Association for the Study of Religion (Chester, Reino Unido)
2016/11	Lecture: Andare nel Pratico della Pratica Ascetica	Master in Yoga Studies Ca’ Foscari University (Venezia, Itália)
2016/10/08	Among the guru and his followers: Power relations and position of a female researcher	Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference University of Bergamo (Bergamo, Itália)
2016/09	The trade of religious titles in contemporary India	Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) (Lund, Suécia)
2016/06	Evolution of tradition in the Ramanandi sampradaya Among hagiographies, Jagadguru and Math	Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference University of Bergamo (Bergamo, Itália)
2016/05/18	Lecture: The ethnographic aspect of the Hatha Yoga Project. Positioning ethnographers, organizing fieldworks	Jagiellonian University Institute for the Study of Religions (Krakow, Polónia)
2016/05	Let the Sadhus Talk. Ascetic practitioners of yoga in northern India	International academic conference Yoga darsana, yoga sadhana: traditions, transmissions, transformations Krakow University (Krakow, Polónia)
2016	Foreigner ascetics on the threshold of Hindu religious orders	South Asian Anthropologists’ Group (SAAG), (London, Reino Unido)
2015/06	Guru's communication in contemporary India. Between preaching and Whatsapp groups	Asia in Motion: Ideas, Institutions, Identities Academic Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan)
2013/09	Are women entitled to become ascetics? An historical and ethnographic glimpse of Indian female asceticism	Coffee Break Conference University of Torino (Torino, Itália)
2012/06/13	Do not ask about caste. If you love God, you belong to God. An historical and anthropological description of the Ramanandi sampradaya and its relationship with caste	The Study of Asia Between Antiquity and Modernity Coffee Break Conference (Cagliari, Itália)

Organização de evento

	Nome do evento Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação)	Instituição / Organização
2024/06/22 - 2024/06/23	Symposium to celebrate the 20 years of the Yoga Field of studies (2024/06/22 - 2024/06/23) Simpósio (Coorganizador)	Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/11/08 - 2019/11/10	Organizer together with Mark Singleton of the international workshop , “Yoga and the Traditional Physical Practices of India: Influence, Entanglement and Confrontation” (2019/11/08 - 2019/11/11) Oficina (workshop) (Coorganizador)	SOAS University of London, Reino Unido
2019/11/08 - 2019/11/10	Organizer together with Mark Singleton of the international workshop , “Yoga and the Traditional Physical Practices of India: Influence, Entanglement and Confrontation” (2019/11/08) Oficina (workshop) (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)

Participação em evento

	Descrição da atividade Tipo de evento	Nome do evento Instituição / Organização
2024/07/28 - 2024/08/01	Panel organization: AGENCY AT THE MARGINS: SOUTH ASIAN GENDER DIVERSE COMMUNITIES NEGOTIATING RELIGION AND POLITICS Conferência	International Convention of Asian Studies (ICAS 13) Universitas Airlangga - Kampus B, Indonésia
2023/07/26 - 2023/07/29	Panel organization for the 27th ECSAS conference in Torino, panel 43 "Trans/Third Gender Communities and Religion in South Asia" Conferência	ECSAS 2023 Turin
2023/06/29 - 2023/06/30	Decolonising or Hinduising hij¿as? Evoking the past for constructing the Kinnar Akha¿a identity Oficina (workshop)	Heritage and Religion in South Asia and its Diasporas: Frictions, Entanglements and Reconfigurations Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Arbitragem científica em conferência

	Nome da conferência	Local da conferência
2022/10 - 2023	ECSAS 2023 Turin	University of Turin

Arbitragem científica em revista

	Nome da revista (ISSN)	Editora
2020/04/20 - Atual	Journal of Yoga Studies

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

	Disciplina	Curso (Tipo)	Instituição / Organização
2021/04/07 - 2021/05/19	Course: HISTORY OF COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL SOUTH ASIA, Second Semester	Corso di laurea triennale in Comunicazione interculturale (Laurea Specialistica)	Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Culture Politica e Societa, Itália
2021/02/22 - 2021/03/31	Course: STORIA E CULTURE DELL'INDIA, Second Semester	HISTORY AND CULTURES OF SOUTH ASIA Oggetto: (Bachelor)	Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Culture Politica e Societa, Itália
2017/10 - 2017/12	The Origins and Development of Yoga in Ancient India	Traditions of Yoga and Meditation (Master)	SOAS University of London, Reino Unido

Entrevista (jornal / revista)

	Descrição da atividade	Jornal / Forum
2018/06/28	Interview for Zenon about my work among ascetics in India and their understanding of yoga practices.	Zenon

Entrevista / Programa (rádio / tv)

	Programa	Tema
2023/04/29 - Atual	Chora Media (Ricercati)	Gli Hindu e le comunità LGBT+

Membro de associação

	Nome da associação	Tipo de participação
2020 - Atual	Member of the Centre of Yoga Studies. SOAS University	Member

Membro de comissão

	Descrição da atividade Tipo de participação	Instituição / Organização
2021 - Atual	Member of the Academic Committee of the ECSAS 2023, Torino Membro