Is This Yoga?

Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Modern Practice
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-138-39005-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga. Is This Yoga? Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Contemporary Practice recognizes the importance of contemporary understandings of yoga and, at the same time, provides historical context and complexity to modern and pre-modern definitions of yogic ideas and practices. Approaching yoga as a vast web of concepts, traditions, social interests, and embodied practices, it raises questions of knowledge, identity, and power across time and space, including the dynamics of "East" and "West." The text is divided into three main sections: thematic concepts; histories; and topics in modern practice.

This accessible guide is essential reading for undergraduate students approaching the topic for the first time, as well as yoga teachers, teacher training programs, casual and devoted practitioners, and interested non-practitioners.

Zielgruppe

General, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foxen, Anya P.

Foxen, Anya

Kuberry, Christa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus Hinduismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Concepts 1: What Is Yoga? 2: Cosmologies: Yogic Theories of the Big World 3: Bodies: Yogic Theories of the Little World 4: Mythologies: Yogic Role Models Part II: Histories 5: Ancient to Classical Yogas 6: Medieval to Early Modern Yogas 7: The Rise of Modern Yoga Part III: Modern Practice 8: Gurus, Lineages, and Yogic Authority 9: Liberating the Modern Self Through the Business of Yoga 10: Yoga Therapies and the Science of Salvation Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Anya Foxen is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA. She is a yoga teacher and long-time practitioner.

Christa Kuberry is a yoga teacher, yoga student, and yoga scholar. She is the Vice President of Standards at Yoga Alliance.