A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western EsotericismA 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 Yoga largely because, the author shows, it reconfigured the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali along the lines of a then emerging New Age occultistic style of secularised and individualistically oriented religiosity. With regard to 20th century developments, this book proposes a four-fold typology of Modern Yoga comprising Modern Psychosomatic, Modern Meditational, Modern Postural and Modern Denominational forms. Iyengar Yoga, one of the most influential schools of Modern Postural Yoga, is then analyzed in the light of this framework, while the conclusion shows how a typical Modern Postural Yoga session may be interpreted to reveal the forms and contents of a healing ritual of secular religion. |
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... Vedānta 2. The religious foundations of Modern Yoga The turning point between classical Hinduism and Neo - Vedanta : Rammohan Roy's Neo - Vedantic Enlightenment Neo - Vedantic Enlightenment to Neo - Vedāntic Romanticism Tagore's ...
... Vedanta 127 Pervasiveness of Vivekananda's Neo - Vedantic influences 127 Centrality of the " realization " theme 128 Ultimate aims : Vedantic and Neo - Vedantic 129 Classical interpretations of atma- and brahmajñāna 130 Early attempts ...
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A History of Modern Yoga: Patañjali and Western Esotericism Elizabeth De Michelis No preview available - 2004 |
A History of Modern Yoga: Patan~jali and Western Esotericism Elizabeth De Michelis No preview available - 2014 |