A History of Modern Yoga
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| Subject | Modern yoga |
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| Genre | Social history, Religion |
| Publisher | Continuum |
Publication date | 2004 |
A History of Modern Yoga is a 2004 book of social and religious history by the scholar of
Context
Elizabeth De Michelis is a scholar of religion specialising in the history of modern yoga. In 2006, she was instrumental in creating the Modern Yoga Research website. In 2016 she set up AMRAY (Association Monégasque pour la Recherche Académique sur le Yoga) to support yoga studies research, and helped to organise a conference on yoga at the Jagiellonian University, Krakòw. In 2018 she initiated the Journal of Yoga Studies and serves as its senior editor.[2]
Book
Contents
The book is in two parts, first a "prehistory" of modern yoga, and then an account of what De Michelis means by modern yoga, distinguishing subtypes "Modern Psychosomatic Yoga" (as in
The book is illustrated with 14 monochrome photographs including three of Keshubchandra Sen, four of
Reception
Harold Coward, reviewing the book in
Elephant Journal notes that the well-researched book sets modern yoga in its cultural context, but that it "then leaps forward"[5] from Vivekananda at the end of the 19th century to Iyengar in the mid-20th.[5]
Suzanne Newcombe, in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, notes that the book started the academic focus on contemporary yoga with its definition and analysis of "modern yoga".[1]
Albertina Nugteren, reviewing the book in Aries, notes that it promises to provide a historical overview of the transformation of yoga when it crossed the cultural boundary from India to the West, but that "the story cannot be told in full, and [the] author has to make choices."
Lola Williamson, reviewing the book in Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, calls it "a comprehensive overview" that traces modern yoga's foundations in 19th century esoteric systems from East and West and a mix of early 20th century ideas such as
See also
- Yoga Body, Mark Singleton's 2010 book on the origins of global yoga in physical culture
- Selling Yoga, Andrea Jain's 2015 book on the commercialisation of global yoga
References
- ^ ISBN 9780199340378.
- ^ "Dr Elizabeth De Michelis". Modern Yoga Research. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- ^ De Michelis 2004.
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- ^ a b "Asanas on ice: A History of Modern Yoga". Elephant Journal. 25 October 2011. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
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Sources
- OCLC 51942410.
External links
Media related to A History of Modern Yoga at Wikimedia Commons
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