Sinister yogis /
Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old aged. Marketed as a clear path to self-realization, mind expansion, and taut abs, yoga is also perceived as an ancient and unchanging Indian tradition based on the revela...
| Основен автор: | White, David Gordon. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=328222 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Sinister yogis. |
| Резюме: |
Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old aged. Marketed as a clear path to self-realization, mind expansion, and taut abs, yoga is also perceived as an ancient and unchanging Indian tradition based on the revelations of benign and limber sages. But this modern conception of yoga derives from nineteenth-century European spirituality, Sinister Yogis reveals, and the true story of yoga's origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and much more entertaining. To uncover this history, David Gordon White focu. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xxii, 352 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-335) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226895154 0226895157 1282679392 9781282679399 |