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Yoga in modern India: the body between science and philosophy

Joseph S. Alter c2004 © Princeton University Press
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  • 9781400843435 (ebook)
  • 9780691118734 (hardcover)
  • 9780691118741 (paper)
Subject
  • Asian: South and Southeast
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Preface (page xiii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xxi)
  • PART 1 INTRODUCTION AND ORIENTATION
    • 1 Historicizing Yoga: The Life and Time of Liberated Souls (page 3)
    • 2 Yoga and the Supermental Being: Materialism, Metaphysics, and Social Reality (page 32)
  • PART 2 YOGA'S MODERN HISTORY AND PRACTICE
    • 3 Swami Kuvalayananda: Science, Yoga, and Global Modernity (page 73)
    • 4 Birth of the Anti-Clinic: Naturopathic Yoga in a Post-Gandhian, Postcolonial State (page 109)
    • 5 Dr. Karandikar, Dr. Pal, and the RSS: Purification, Subtle Gymnastics, and Man Making (page 142)
  • PART 3 CONCLUSION
    • 6 Auto-Urine Therapy-The Elixir of Life: Yoga, Ayurveda, and Self-Perfection (page 181)
    • 7 Mimetic Skepticism and Yoga: Moving beyond the Problem of Culture and Relativism (page 211)
  • Notes (page 247)
  • Glossary (page 273)
  • References (page 283)
  • Index (page 309)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAS 66.2 (May, 2007): 562-564 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20203182
JRAI 11.4 (Dec. 2005): 846-847 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3804055
AANTH 108.3 (Sep. 2006): 554-555 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3804645
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