Yoga in the Modern World (eBook, PDF)

Contemporary Perspectives
Redaktion: Singleton, Mark; Byrne, Jean

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first study to engage directly with the transformations and adaptations of yoga in the modern world. It addresses the dialectic and ideological exchange between yoga's ancient precursors and modern praxis, and the development and consolidation of yoga in global settings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134055203
• Artikelnr.: 43070548

Autorenporträt

Mark Singleton teaches at St. John's College, Santa Fe, USA. He works on the history of ideas within transnational modern yoga, and he is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Routledge 2007). Jean Byrne is affiliated with the University of Queensland, Australia and her research explores the intersection of feminist theory and yoga philosophy and practice. She lectures in Eastern Philosophy and runs The Yoga Space in Perth, Australia where she teaches Ashtanga Yoga.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Mapping The Terrain Of Modern Yoga Studies 1. Modern Yoga: History
and Forms Elizabeth de Michelis 2. Yoga Shivir: Methodological and Ethical
Problems in the Study of Modern Yoga Joseph S. Alter 3. 'Adapt, Adjust,
Accommodate': The Production of Yoga in a Transnational World Sarah Strauss
Part 2: Posturing For Authenticity 4. The Classical Reveries of Modern
Yoga: Patañjali and Constructive Orientalism Mark Singleton 5. The
Reflexivity of the Authenticity of Hatha Yoga Kenneth Liberman Part 3:
Spirituality, Sexuality and Authority: Understanding the Experience of
Modern Yoga Practice 6. Empowerment and Using the Body in Modern Postural
Yoga Klas Nevrin 7. 'With Heat Even Iron Will Bend': Discipline and
Authority in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Benjamin Richard Smith 8. The Numinous
and Cessative in Modern Yoga Stuart Ray Sarbacker 9. From Fusion to
Confusion: A Consideration of Sex and Sexuality in Traditional and
Contemporary Yoga Mikel Burley