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Beschreibung

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.

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.

Über den Autor
Elizabeth De Michelis is Gordon Milburn Junior Research Fellow at Oriel College, University of Oxford, UK.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction PART I: The Prehistory of Modern Yoga 1. Roots of Modern Yoga 2. The religious foundations of Modern Yoga 3. Vivekananda and the emergence of Neo-Vedåntic occultism 4. "God-realisation" and "Self-realisation" in Neo-Vedånta PART II: Modern Yoga Theory and Practice 5. Vivekananda's Raja-Yoga (1896): Modern Yoga formulated 6. 20th century developments of Modern Yoga 7. Theory and practice of Iyengar Yoga 8. Conclusion: Modern Postural Yoga as healing ritual of secular religion
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780826487728
ISBN-10: 0826487726
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: de Michelis, Elizabeth
Hersteller: Continnuum-3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Elizabeth de Michelis
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2005
Gewicht: 0,462 kg
Artikel-ID: 132409159

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