Is This Yoga?: Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Modern Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138390058 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 240 str.

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Opis

This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga. It recognizes the importance of contemporary understandings of yoga and, at the same time, provides historical context and complexity to modern and pre-modern definitions of yogic ideas and practices.

Spis treści

Part I: Concepts  1: What Is Yoga?  2: Cosmologies: Yogic Theories of the Big World  3: Bodies: Yogic Theories of the Little World  4: Mythologies: Yogic Role Models  Part II: Histories  5: Ancient to Classical Yogas  6: Medieval to Early Modern Yogas  7: The Rise of Modern Yoga  Part III: Modern Practice  8: Gurus, Lineages, and Yogic Authority  9: Liberating the Modern Self Through the Business of Yoga  10: Yoga Therapies and the Science of Salvation  Glossary