A history of modern yoga : Patañjali and Western esotericism

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    • De Michelis, Elizabeth

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A history of modern yoga : Patañjali and Western esotericism

Elizabeth De Michelis

Continuum, 2005

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Description based on reprint (2006)

"First published 2004 by Continuum, First paperback edition 2005" -- T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. 261-274

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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-Vedantic Occultism
  • 4. "God-Realisation" and "Self-Realisation" in Neo-Vedanta
  • 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 Lyengar Yoga
  • 8. Conclusion: Modern Postural Yoga as Healing Ritual of Secular
  • Religion

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA85838067
  • ISBN
    • 0826487726
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    London
  • ページ数/冊数
    xvii, 282 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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