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Yoga in the Modern World: Contemporary Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Yoga in the Modern World Contemporary Perspectives

Edited By Mark Singleton, Jean Byrne Copyright 2008
224 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Today yoga is a thoroughly globalised phenomenon. Yoga has taken the world by storm and is even seeing renewed popularity in India. Both in India and abroad, adults, children and teenagers are practicing yoga in diverse settings; gyms, schools, home, work, yoga studios and temples. The yoga diaspora began well over a hundred years ago and we continue to see new manifestations and uses of Yoga in... Read more

Introduction (MARK SINGLETON AND JEAN BYRNE)

Part I: 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 II: 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 III: Spirituality, Sexuality & 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)

Biography

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.

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