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

By: Anya Foxen and Christa Kuberry

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 240 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780429750588
Related ISBNs:: 9781138390058, 9780429422973, 9781138390072
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 05/30/21
Copyrighted By:: Anya Foxen and Christa Kuberry. The right of Anya Foxen and Christa Kuberry to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.