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- catalog abstract ""In recent years yoga and meditation have become mass market pursuits in the West. A History of Modern Yoga traces this phenomenon back to its ideological roots in the esoteric circles of late eighteenth-century Bengal, and follows some of its main developments to date. Fully-fledged Modern Yoga, the author argues, started with the publication of Swami Vivekananda's seminal Raja Yoga (1896), in which Patanjali's Yoga Sutras were reconfigured along the lines of a then-emerging New Age style of secularized and individualistically oriented religiosity. But what exactly are yoga and meditation as taught and practised today? In order to map this unknown territory, this book discusses some of the central religio-philosophical tenets of Modern Yoga, and offers a fourfold typology comprising Modern Psychosomatic, Modern Meditational, Modern Postural and Modern Denominational forms of yoga. Special attention is then given to Modern Postural Yoga, and the teachings and practices of the influential lyengar school of yoga are analysed in detail. The book's 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"--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b13187071.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""In recent years yoga and meditation have become mass market pursuits in the West. A History of Modern Yoga traces this phenomenon back to its ideological roots in the esoteric circles of late eighteenth-century Bengal, and follows some of its main developments to date. Fully-fledged Modern Yoga, the author argues, started with the publication of Swami Vivekananda's seminal Raja Yoga (1896), in which Patanjali's Yoga Sutras were reconfigured along the lines of a then-emerging New Age style of secularized and individualistically oriented religiosity.".
- catalog description "But what exactly are yoga and meditation as taught and practised today? In order to map this unknown territory, this book discusses some of the central religio-philosophical tenets of Modern Yoga, and offers a fourfold typology comprising Modern Psychosomatic, Modern Meditational, Modern Postural and Modern Denominational forms of yoga. Special attention is then given to Modern Postural Yoga, and the teachings and practices of the influential lyengar school of yoga are analysed in detail. The book's 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"--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-274) and index.".
- catalog description "Roots of modern yoga -- Religious foundations of modern yoga -- Vivekananda and the emergence of neo-Vedāntic occultism -- "God-realization" and "self-realization" in neo-vedānta -- Vivekananda's Rāja Yoga (1896) : modern yoga formulated -- Twentieth-century developments of modern yoga -- Theory and practice of Iyengar Yoga -- Conclusion : modern postural yoga as healing ritual of secular religion.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 282 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0826465129".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Continuum,".
- catalog subject "181/.45 21".
- catalog subject "B132.Y6 D37 2004".
- catalog subject "Patañjali.".
- catalog subject "Yoga History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Roots of modern yoga -- Religious foundations of modern yoga -- Vivekananda and the emergence of neo-Vedāntic occultism -- "God-realization" and "self-realization" in neo-vedānta -- Vivekananda's Rāja Yoga (1896) : modern yoga formulated -- Twentieth-century developments of modern yoga -- Theory and practice of Iyengar Yoga -- Conclusion : modern postural yoga as healing ritual of secular religion.".
- catalog title "A history of modern yoga : Patañjali and Western esotericism / Elizabeth De Michelis.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".