Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 282 Seiten)
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Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781472548436
Content:
"A History of Modern Yoga traces the roots of Modern Yoga back to the spread of western esoteric ideas in 18th century Bengal's intellectual circles. In due course Raja Yoga, published by Vivekananda in 1896, became the seminal text of Modern Yoga largely because, the author shows, it reconfigured the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali along the lines of a then emerging New Age occultistic style of secularised and individualistically oriented religiosity. With regard to 20th century developments, this book proposes a four-fold typology of Modern Yoga comprising Modern Psychosomatic, Modern Meditational, Modern Postural and Modern Denominational forms. Iyengar Yoga, one of the most influential schools of Modern Postural Yoga, is then analyzed in the light of this framework, while the conclusion shows how a typical Modern Postural Yoga session may be interpreted to reveal the forms and contents of a healing ritual of secular religion."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
pt. 1. The prehistory of modern yoga -- pt. 2. Modern yoga theory and practice.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-274) and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781623568078
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826439734
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826487728
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe De Michelis, Elizabeth A history of modern yoga London [u.a.] : Continuum, 2005 ISBN 9780826487728
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0826487726
Language:
English
Keywords:
Yoga
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Geschichte 1849-2005
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781472548436
