Anya Foxen, Christa Kuberry

Is This Yoga? (eBook, ePUB)

Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Modern Practice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429750588
• Artikelnr.: 61461756

Autorenporträt

Anya Foxen is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA. She is a yoga teacher and long-time practitioner.

Christa Kuberry is a yoga teacher, yoga student, and yoga scholar. She is the Vice President of Standards at Yoga Alliance.

Inhaltsangabe

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