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Authored Books

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2018) Modern Hindu Traditionalism in Contemporary India: The Śrī Maṭh and the Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya in the Evolution of the Ramanandi Sampradaya. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. (Routledge Hindu Studies Series)

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2016) Devadasi. Serva del dio al servizio degli uomini. Roma: Armillaria.

Book Chapters

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2020) 'Globalization and Asceticism: Foreign Ascetics on the Threshold of Hindu Religious Orders.' In: Cornelio, Jayeel, Gauthier, François, Martikainen, Tuomas and Woodhead, Linda, (eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society. Routledge.

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2017) 'Evolution of Tradition in the Ramanandi Order. Among Hagiographies, Jagadguru and Maṭh.' In: Palmisano, Stefania and Pannofino, Nicola, (eds.), Invention of Tradition and Syncretism in Contemporary Religions: Sacred Creativity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 69-89. (Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities)

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2016) 'Do Not Ask About Caste If You Love God You Belong to God: Ramanandi Sampradaya and Its Relation with Caste – A Historical and Anthropological Overview.' In: Bindi, Serena, Mucciarelli, Elena and Pontillo, Tiziana, (eds.), Cross-Cutting South Asian Studies, An Interdisciplinary Approach. New Delhi: DK Printworld, pp. 80-115.

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2016) 'Tra Tradizione e Modernità: Una Prospettiva Storica Sull’Ascetismo Femminile Hindu.' In: Palmisano, Stefania and Giorgi, Alberta, (eds.), D come Donne D come Dio. Sesto San Giovanni, Milan: Mimesis Edizioni.

Journal Article

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2018) 'Changing the narration, adjusting the order: The independence of the Rāmānandī sampradāya and the bestowing of the title of Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya.' Rivista degli Studi Orientali (Nuova Serie), XCI (2). pp. 13-26.

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2018) '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). pp. 45-66.

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2018) 'Let the Sādhus Talk. Ascetic understanding of Haṭha Yoga and yogāsanas.' Religions of South Asia, 11 (2). pp. 182-206.

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2017) '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). pp. 51-79.

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2015) 'Film review: “Flowers From the Mount of Olives” (Olimäe Oied). Directed by Heilika Pikkov, 70 min/ 2013.' Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, 3 (1). p. 95.

Book Reviews

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2020) 'Review of: The History of Janakpurdham. A Study of Asceticism and the Hindu Polity, by Richard Burghart. Kathmandu: Himal Books, 2016.' European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 54 . pp. 108-111.

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2018) 'Review of: Everyday Creativity. Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills by Kirin Narayan. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.' newbooks.asia .

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2015) 'Review of: Varieties of Secularism in Asia, Anthroplogical explorations of religion, politics and the spiritual, edited by Nils Bubandt and Martijn van Beek, Routledge, 2014.' Contemporary South Asia, 23 (2). pp. 227-228.

Other

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2018) 'Rāmānandī Sampradāya.' In: Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2013) 'Film review: “Sex, Death and the Gods”. Directed by Beedan Kidron. Col. 75 mns. BBC, 2011.' Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, 1 (2).