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A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0826487726
ISBN-13:: 9780826487728
Pub. Date:: 12/08/2005
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic

ISBN-10:: 0826487726
ISBN-13:: 9780826487728
Pub. Date:: 12/08/2005
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic

A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism / Edition 1

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A History of Modern Yoga traces the roots of Modern Yoga back to the spread of western esoteric ideas in 18th century Bengal's intellectual circles. In due course Raja Yoga, published by Vivekananda in 1896, became the seminal text of Modern.

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ISBN-13:	9780826487728
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/08/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth De Michelis is Gordon Milburn Junior Research Fellow at Oriel College, University of Oxford, UK.

Introduction PART I: The Prehistory of Modern Yoga 1. Roots of Modern Yoga 2. The religious foundations of Modern Yoga 3. Vivekananda and the emergence of Neo-Vedåntic occultism 4. "God-realisation" and "Self-realisation" in Neo-Vedånta PART II: Modern Yoga Theory and Practice 5. Vivekananda's Raja-Yoga (1896): Modern Yoga formulated 6. 20th century developments of Modern Yoga 7. Theory and practice of Iyengar Yoga 8. Conclusion: Modern Postural Yoga as healing ritual of secular religion

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'...De Michelis greatly adds to our knowledge of how contemporary presentations of yoga differ from earlier ones.'--Sanford Lakoff

'...Likely to stimulate debate...researchers working in the fields that Elizabeth De Michelis spans will find this an interesting and, at certain points, provocative study.' Volume 21, Number 1--Sanford Lakoff "Journal Of Contemporary Religion "

Reference & Research Book News, August 2006--Sanford Lakoff

'carefully researched and closely-argued . . . Far more than a reconstruction of the history of Modern Yoga, the book is an important contribution to the history of Orientalism, the Brahmo Samaj, and Neo-Vedanta.' Prof David Gordon White Department of Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara

'A History of Modern Yoga is a timely work of astute, rigorous, critical scholarship. De Michelis has done an outstanding job' Prof Joseph Alter University of Pittsburgh

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De Michelis (faculty of Divinity, Cambridge) has made an important contribution to modern scholarship in religion with this history of yogic practice. Many readers will find her style dry in the extreme, but she is quite adept at unstitching the many complex strands of association and precedent that have gone into the modern concepts of yogic practice, from 18th-century Bengal to 20th-century America. A crucial addition to academically inclined libraries and an important eyeopener for larger collections. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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