A History of Modern Yoga: Patan~jali and Western Esotericism

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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, May 14, 2014 - Religion - 282 pages
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 Y

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About the author (2014)

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

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