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 the modern world.
As the first of its kind this collection draws together cutting edge scholarship in the field, focusing on the theory and practice of yoga in contemporary times. Offering a range of perspectives on yoga's contemporary manifestations, it maps the movement, development and consolidation of yoga in global settings. The collection features some of the most well-known authors within the field and newer voices. The contributions span a number of disciplines in the humanities, including, anthropology, Philosophy, Studies in Religion and Asian studies, offering a range of entry points to the issues involved in the study of the subject. As such, is of use to those involved in academic scholarship, as well as to the growing number of yoga practitioners who seek a deeper account of the origin and significance of the techniques and traditions they are engaging with. It will also-and perhaps most of all-speak to the growing numbers of 'scholar-practitioners' who straddle these two realms.
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Part 1: 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 2: 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 3: Spirituality, Sexuality and 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
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.
"Recommended. Graduate students and above." - CHOICE, May 2009 Vol. 46 No. 09
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part 1: 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 2: 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 3: Spirituality, Sexuality and 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
Klappentext
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.
