Is This Yoga? : Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Modern Practice

著者名：Foxen, Anya/Kuberry, Christa

Routledge（2021/05/31発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781138390072
• eISBN：9780429750588

Description

This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga. Is This Yoga? Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Contemporary Practice recognizes the importance of contemporary understandings of yoga and, at the same time, provides historical context and complexity to modern and pre-modern definitions of yogic ideas and practices. Approaching yoga as a vast web of concepts, traditions, social interests, and embodied practices, it raises questions of knowledge, identity, and power across time and space, including the dynamics of "East" and "West." The text is divided into three main sections: thematic concepts; histories; and topics in modern practice.

This accessible guide is essential reading for undergraduate students approaching the topic for the first time, as well as yoga teachers, teacher training programs, casual and devoted practitioners, and interested non-practitioners.

Table of Contents

Part I: Concepts

1: What Is Yoga?

2: Cosmologies: Yogic Theories of the Big World

3: Bodies: Yogic Theories of the Little World

4: Mythologies: Yogic Role Models

Part II: Histories

5: Ancient to Classical Yogas

6: Medieval to Early Modern Yogas

7: The Rise of Modern Yoga

Part III: Modern Practice

8: Gurus, Lineages, and Yogic Authority

9: Liberating the Modern Self Through the Business of Yoga

10: Yoga Therapies and the Science of Salvation

Glossary