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Yoga in modern India : the body between science and philosophy /
Challenges the popular view that yoga is timeless and unchanging by examining the history of yoga, focusing on its emergence in modern India and its dramatically changing form and significance in the twentieth century. Alter argues that yoga's transformation into a popular activity idolized for...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART 1. INTRODUCTION AND ORIENTATION
- 1. Historicizing yoga : the life and times of liberated souls
- 2. Yoga and the supramental being : materialism, metaphysics, and social reality
- PART 2. YOGA'S MODERN HISTORY AND PRACTICE
- 3. Swami Kuvalayananda : science, yoga, and global modernity
- 4. Birth of the anti-clinic : naturopathic yoga in a post-Gandhian, postcolonial state
- 5. Dr. Karandikar, Dr. Pal, and the RSS : purification, subtle gymnastics, and man making
- PART 3. CONCLUSION
- 6. Auto-urine therapy
- the elixir of life : yoga, Ayurveda, and self-perfection
- 7. Mimetic skepticism and yoga : moving beyond the problem of culture and relativism
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index.