Gurus of Modern Yoga (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Singleton, Mark; Goldberg, Ellen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Within most pre-modern, Indian traditions of yoga, the role of the guru is absolutely central. Indeed, it was often understood that yoga would simply not work without the grace of the guru. The modern period saw the dawn of new, democratic, scientific modes of yoga practice and teaching. While teachings and gurus have always adapted to the times and circumstances, the sheer pace of cultural change ushered in by modernity has led to some unprecedented innovations in the way gurus present themselves and their teachings, and the way they are received by their students. Gurus of Modern Yoga explores the contributions of individual gurus to the formation of the practices and discourses of yoga today. The focus is not limited to India, but also extends to the teachings of yoga gurus in the modern, transnational world, and within the Hindu diaspora. Each section deals with a different aspect of the guru within modern yoga. Included are extensive considerations of the transnational tantric guru; the teachings of modern yoga's best-known guru, T. Krishnamacharya, and those of his principal disciples; the place of technology, business and politics in the work of global yoga gurus; and the role of science and medicine. As a whole, the book represents an extensive and diverse picture of the place of the guru, both past and present, in contemporary yoga practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199938711
• Artikelnr.: 39947320

Autorenporträt

Mark Singleton is an Instructor at St. John's College. Ellen Goldberg is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions at Queen's University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contributors
* Note on Transliteration
* Introduction - Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg
* Part One: Key Figures in Early Twentieth-Century Yoga
* Chapter 1: Manufacturing Yogis: Swami Vivekananda as a Yoga Teacher -
Dermot Killingley
* Chapter 2: Remembering Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: The Forgotten
Lineage of Integral Yoga - Ann Gleig and Charles I. Flores
* Chapter 3: Shri Yogendra: Magic, Modernity and the Burden of the
Middle-Class Yogi - Joseph S. Alter
* Part Two: The Lineages of T. Krishnamacharya
* Chapter 4: T. Krishnamacharya, ''Father of Modern Yoga'' - Mark
Singleton and Tara Fraser
* Chapter 5: ''Authorized by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois'': The Role of
Parampara and Lineage in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga - Jean Byrne
* Chapter 6: B.K.S. Iyengar as a Yoga Teacher and Yoga Guru - Frederick
M. Smith and Joan White
* Chapter 7: The Institutionalization of the Yoga Tradition: ''Gurus''
B. K. S. Iyengar and Yogini Sunita in Britain - Suzanne Newcombe
* Part Three: Tantra Based Gurus
* Chapter 8: Swami Krpalvananda: The Man Behind Kripalu Yoga - Ellen
Goldberg
* Chapter 9: Muktananda: Entrepreneurial Godman, Tantric Hero - Andrea
R. Jain
* Chapter 10: Stretching toward the Sacred: John Friend and Anusara
Yoga - Lola Williamson
* Part Four: Bhaktiyoga
* Chapter 11: Svaminarayana: Bhaktiyoga and the Aksarabhraman Guru -
Hanna H. Kim
* Chapter 12: Sathya Sai Baba and the Repertoire of Yoga - Smriti
Srinivas
* Part Five: Technology
* Chapter 13: Engineering an Artful Practice: On Jaggi Vasudev's ISHA
Yoga and Sri Sri Ravi Shakar's Art of Living - Joanne Punzo Waghorne
* Chapter 14: Online Bhakti in a Modern Guru Organization - Maya
Warrier
* Part Six: Nation-Builders
* Chapter 15: Eknath Ranade, Gurus and Jivanvratis (life-workers):
Vivekananda Kendra's Promotion of the ''Yoga Way of Life'' - Gwilym
Beckerlegge
* Chapter 16: Swami Ramdev: Modern Yoga Revolutionary - Stuart
Sarbacker
* Index