Fascist Yoga : Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order in Wellness.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Home, Stewart.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yoga.

Fascism--History.

Fascism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2025.

Summary:

The weird and disturbing history of the cult of yoga.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Part i happy baby: a grubby guru takes us all to the cleaners

1 Did Pierre Bernard Invent Yoga in California at the Start of the Twentieth Century?

The great oom and white power

Part ii warrior one, two and three: fascism + yoga = fascist yoga (the 1920s to the 1940s)

3 Guido keller and the rijeka yoga group

4 Military theorist major j. f. c. fuller, whose concept of blitzkrieg became standard practice in nazi warfare

5 Bengal lancer and hitler aficionado francis yeats-brown

6 Jakob wilhelm hauer and his influence on the architect of the nazi holocaust heinrich himmler

7 Mircea eliade, julius evola, savitri devi – national socialism as a religion and the yoga of power

Part iii downward dog: occult madness and yogic televangelism (modern postural practice in the post-war era)

8 Paul dukes, francis yeats-brown (again) and theos bernard, spreading the great oom’s gospel in the post-war years

9 Indra devi and her editors at prentice hall

10 Harvey day, a hack who found success with books on yoga

11 Desmond dunne aka occultist james lee richardson and his mail order yoga course

12 Richard hittleman and yogic televangelism

13 Pull the wool over your own eyes with frank rudolph young, the ‘einstein’ of occult yoga

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

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ISBN:

0-7453-5113-1

0-7453-5118-2

OCLC:

1528361432