Yoga in Modern India The Body Between Science and Philosophy

Name: Yoga in Modern India The Body Between Science and Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780691118741

ISBN-10: 0691118744

ISBN-13: 9780691118741

Edition: 2005

Authors: Joseph S. Alter

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Yoga has come to be an icon of Indian culture and civilization, and it is widely regarded as being timeless and unchanging. Based on extensive ethnographic research and an analysis of both ancient and modern texts,Yoga in Modern Indiachallenges this popular view by examining the history of yoga, focusing on its emergence in modern India and its dramatically changing form and significance in the twentieth century. Joseph Alter argues that yoga's transformation into a popular activity idolized for its health value is based on modern ideas about science and medicine. Alter centers his analysis on an interpretation of the seminal work of Swami Kuvalayananda, one of the chief architects of the…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/19/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.14" wide x 11.93" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction and Orientation



Historicizing Yoga: The Life and Times of Liberated Souls



Yoga and the Supramental Being: Materialism, Metaphysics, and Social Reality



Yoga's Modern History and Practice



Science, Yoga, and Global Modernity




Birth of the Anti-Clinic: Naturopathic Yoga in a Post-Gandhian, Postcolonial State



and the RSS: Purification, Subtle Gymnastics, and Man Making




Conclusion 6


Auto-Urine Therapy


The Elixir of Life: Yoga, Ayurveda, and Self-Perfection



Mimetic Skepticism and Yoga: Moving beyond the Problem of Culture and Relativism


Notes


Glossary


References


Index