David Gordon White
David Gordon White | |
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| Born | September 3, 1953[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Occupation | Indology |
David Gordon White (born September 3, 1953) is an American
. He won the CHOICE book selection in religion, and an honorable mention in the PROSE book awards, both for Sinister Yogis.Academic career
David Gordon White took his B.A. in South Asian Studies at the
University of Wisconsin in 1975. He obtained an M.A. in Religion at the University of Chicago in 1981 and his Ph.D. in the history of religions there in 1988; his dissertation was titled The Other Gives Rise to Self: Dog-Men on the Borders of Medieval Europe, India, and China.[2] He served as an assistant to Mircea Eliade.[3] He is the J. F. Rowny Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been teaching since 1996. He has written numerous academic books and papers on the history of yoga.[2]
Honors and distinctions
White won the CHOICE book selection in religion, and an honorable mention in the PROSE book awards, both for Sinister Yogis.[2]
Reception
British indologist
siddhis that it produces. Mallinson further states "As well as varying the criteria for what constitutes yoga to suit his thesis, White cherry-picks his evidence to do the same, citing passages that support his argument while ignoring those in the very same texts that would argue against it."[3] Mallinson says that White continues to argue that vajroli mudra is a part of rāja yoga in the text Amanaska verse 2.32, despite corrections from other scholars in the past. Mallinson criticizes White's competence in linguistics, dating of texts and conflating different ascetic traditions.[3]
In chapter 8 of the book Invading the Sacred, the Trinidadian Hindu priest[4] Pandita Indrani Rampersad accuses White of demolishing tantra.[5] She also accuses Wendy Doniger of preventing criticism of White.[5]
In his review of White's book Kiss of the Yoginī: "Tantric Sex" in Its South Asian Contexts, the Indologist
allegorical in Tantric text known only to the initiate, not literal as described in White's book.[6]
Works
Books
- Myths of the Dog-Man (University of Chicago Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0226895093.
- The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India (University of Chicago Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0226894997.
- Tantra in Practice (edited volume) (Princeton University Press, 2000). ISBN 978-0691057798.
- Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts (University of Chicago Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0226894843.
- Sinister Yogis (University of Chicago Press, 2009) ISBN 978-0226895147.
- Yoga in Practice (edited volume) (Princeton University Press, 2011). ISBN 978-0691140865.
- The Yoga Sutra of Patañjali. A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2014). ISBN 978-0691143774.
Articles
- "Dakini, Yogini, Pairika, Strix: Adventures in Comparative Demonology", Southeast Review of Asian Studies 35 (2013), pp. 7–31.
- "Yoga in Transformation", in Debra Diamond, ed., Yoga, The Art of Transformation.
- "Mercury & Immortality: The Hindu Alchemical Tradition", in Aaron Cheak, ed., Alchemical Traditions. From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde (Melbourne: Numen Books, 2013): 207–28.(Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2013), pp. 35–45.
- "Netra Tantra, at the Crossroads of the Demonological Cosmopolis", Journal of Hindu Studies 5:2 (July 2012): 145–71.
- "Rasayana", Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Leiden: Brill, 2011), vol. 3, pp. 489–99.
- "Tantra", Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Leiden: Brill, 2011), vol. 3, pp. 574–88.
- "On the Magnitude of the Yogic Body", in Yogi Heroes and Poets: Histories and Legends of the Naths, ed. by David Lorenzen and Adrian Muñoz (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011): 79–90.
- "How Big Can Yogis Get? How Much Can Yogis See?" in Knut Jacobsen, ed., Yoga Powers (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 61–76.
- "Amulettes et lambeaux divines: superstition, vraie religion et science pure à la lumière de la démonologie hindoue", Purusartha 27 (Paris: Editions de l’EHESS, 2009), pp. 135–62.
- "Bhairava", Brill Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Leiden, 2009).
- "Yogini", Brill Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Leiden, 2009).
- "Digging Wells While Houses Burn? Writing Histories of Hinduism in a Time of Identity Politics", History and Theory 45:4 (2006), pp. 104–31.
References
- ^ "David Gordon White: Curriculum Vitae". Academia. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
- ^ a b c "David White". University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
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- ^ Ramoutar, Paras (February 1994). "Criticism and Acclaim Greet Trinidad's First Woman Priest". Hinduism Today. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ a b Krishnan Ramaswamy; Antonio de Nicolas; Aditi Banerjee. "Invading the Sacred" (PDF). Rajiv Malhtora.com. pp. 73–95. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-06-30. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
- ^ JSTOR 25608318.
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