Yoga in Transformation : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives / Karl Baier, Karin Preisendanz, Philipp André Maas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baier, Karl., Editor.

Contributor:

Baier, Karl, editor.

Preisendanz, Karin, editor.

Maas, Philipp André, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (631 p.)

Place of Publication:

Göttingen V&R unipress 2018

Gottingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This volume explores aspects of yoga over a period of about 2500 years. In its first part, it investigates facets of the South Asian and Tibetan traditions of yoga, such as the evolution of posture practice, the relationship between yoga and sex, yoga in the theistic context, the influence of Buddhism on early yoga, and the encounter of Islam with classical yoga. The second part addresses aspects of modern globalised yoga and its historical formation, as for example the emergence of yoga in Viennese occultism, the integration of yoga and nature cure in modern India, the eventisation of yoga in a global setting, and the development of Patañjali's iconography. In keeping with the current trend in yoga studies, the emphasis of the volume is on the practice of yoga and its theoretical underpinnings."

Contents:

Some problematic yoga sutra and their Buddhist background / Dominik Wujastyk

"Sthirasukham Āsanam": posture and performance in classical yoga and beyond / Philipp A. Maas

The proliferation of Āsana-s in late-medieval yoga texts / Jason Birch

Yoga and sex: what is the purpose of Vajrolītnudrā? / James Mallinson

Yoga in the daily routine of the Pāñcarātrins / Marion Rastelli

The transformation of yoga in medieval Maharashtra / Catharina Kiehnle

On al-Bīrūnī's Kitāb Pātanğal and the Pātañjalayogaśastra / Philipp A. Maas, Noémie Verdon

Tibetan yoga: Somatic practice in Vajrayāna buddhism and Dzogchen / Ian A. Baker

Yoga within Viennese occultism: Carl Kellner and co. / Karl Baier

Yoga, nature cure and "perfect" health: the purity of the fluid body in an impure world / Joseph S. Alter

Sāmkhya in transcultural interpretation: Shri Anirvan (Śrī Anirvāna) and Lizelle Reymond / Maya Burger

Christian responses to yoga in the second half of the twentieth century / Anand Amaladass

Following the transcultural circulation of bodily practices: modern yoga and the corporeality of mantras / Beatrix Hauser

Living4giving : politics of affect and emotional regimes in global yoga / Anne Koch

Spaces of yoga: towards a non-essentialist understanding of yoga / Suzanne Newcombe

Nāga, Siddha and sage: visions of Patañjali as an authority on yoga / Gudrun Bühnemann.

Notes:

CC BY-SA

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783737008624

3737008620