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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... West cross - influences in historical perspective The Brahmo Samaj and the occultization of Neo - Vedānta 2. The religious foundations of Modern Yoga The turning point between classical Hinduism and Neo - Vedanta : Rammohan Roy's Neo ...
Patanjali and Western Esotericism Elizabeth De Michelis. Vivekananda's esoteric biography II : the West Vivekananda at the Parliament of Religions Vivekananda's assimilation of Western occultism Harmonial Religion : Metaphysical beliefs ...
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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 |