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9780415452588

Yoga in the Modern World: Contemporary Perspectives

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415452588

  • ISBN10:

    0415452589

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-08-18
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

About the editorsp. ix
Prefatory notep. xi
Acknowledgementsp. xii
Introductionp. 1
Mapping the Terrain of Modern Yoga Studiesp. 15
Modern Yoga: History and Formsp. 17
Yoga Shivir: Performativity and the Study of Modern Yogap. 36
öAdapt, Adjust, Accommodateö: the Production of Yoga in a Transnational Worldp. 49
Posturing for Authenticityp. 75
The Classical Reveries of Modern Yoga: Patañjali and Constructive Orientalismp. 77
The Reflexivity of the Authenticity of Ha&tbdot;ha Yogap. 100
Spirituality, Sexuality, and Authority: Understanding the Experience of Contemporary Yoga Practicep. 117
Empowerment and Using the Body in Modern Postural Yogap. 119
öWith Heat Even Iron Will Bendö: Discipline and Authority in Ashtanga Yogap. 140
The Numinous and Cessative in Modern Yogap. 161
From Fusion to Confusion: A Consideration of Sex and Sexuality in Traditional and Contemporary Yogap. 184
Indexp. 204
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