Yoga in modern India: The body between science and philosophy/ Joseph S. Alter

By: Alter, Joseph SMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Delhi: New Age Books, 2009Description: 326 pISBN: 9788178223247Subject(s): Yoga | Körpererfahrung | HinduismusDDC classification: 204.
Contents:
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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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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