Alter, Joseph S.

Yoga in modern India: The body between science and philosophy/ Joseph S. Alter - Delhi: New Age Books, 2009. - 326 p.

PART 1 INTRODUCTION AND ORIENTATION
Historicizing Yoga:
The Life and Times of Liberated Souls
Yoga and the Supramental Being:
Materialism, Metaphysics, and Social Reality
PART 2 YOGA'S MODERN HISTORY AND PRACTICE
Swami Kuvalayananda:
Science, Yoga, and Global Modernity
Birth of the Anti-Clinic:
Naturopathic Yoga in a Post-Gandhian, Postcolonial State
Dr. Karandikar, Dr. Pal, and the RSS:
Purification, Subtle Gymnastics, and Man Making
PART 3 CONCLUSION
Auto-Urine Therapy—The Elixir of Life:
Yoga, Ayurveda, and Self-Perfection
Mimetic Skepticism and Yoga:
Moving beyond the Problem of Culture and Relativism

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Yoga
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Hinduismus

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