Yoga in Transformation

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-8471-0862-7
Verlag: V & R Unipress GmbH

Buch, Deutsch, Band Band 016, 630 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 1029 g

Reihe: Wiener Forum für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft

This volume explores aspects of yoga over a period of about 2500 years. In its first part, it investigates facets of the South Asian and Tibetan traditions of yoga, such as the evolution of posture practice, the relationship between yoga and sex, yoga in the theistic context, the influence of Buddhism on early yoga, and the encounter of Islam with classical yoga. The second part addresses aspects of modern globalised yoga and its historical formation, as for example the emergence of yoga in Viennese occultism, the integration of yoga and nature cure in modern India, the eventisation of yoga in a global setting, and the development of Patañjali’s iconography. In keeping with the current trend in yoga studies, the emphasis of the volume is on the practice of yoga and its theoretical underpinnings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baier, Karl

Maas, Philipp André

Preisendanz, Karin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Baier, Karl

Maas, Philipp André

Preisendanz, Karin

Alter, Joseph S.

Amaladass, Anand

Baker, Ian

Birch, Jason

Bühnemann, Gudrun

Burger, Maya

Hauser, Beatrix

Kiehnle, Catharina

Koch, Anne

Mallinson, James

Newcombe, Suzanne

Rastelli, Marion

Wujastyk, Dominik

Verdon, Noémie

Tyran, Jean-Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Preisendanz, Karin
Prof Dr Karin Preisendanz holds the Chair of Indology at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies of the University of Vienna, Austria, and specialises in the history of South Asian philosophy and classical Ayurveda.

Maas, Philipp André
Dr Philipp A. Maas is Research Associate at the Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies, University of Leipzig. His work is focused on Patañjali’s Yoga in premodern South Asia and in modern academic research, on Indian philosophy and on Ayurveda.

Maas, Philipp André
Dr Philipp A. Maas is Research Associate at the Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies, University of Leipzig. His work is focused on Patañjali’s Yoga in premodern South Asia and in modern academic research, on Indian philosophy and on Ayurveda.

Preisendanz, Karin
Prof Dr Karin Preisendanz holds the Chair of Indology at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies of the University of Vienna, Austria, and specialises in the history of South Asian philosophy and classical Ayurveda.

Baier, Karl
Prof Dr Karl Baier is Head of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna. His research interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century alternative religion, occultism and modern yoga.

Baier, Karl
Prof Dr Karl Baier is Head of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna. His research interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century alternative religion, occultism and modern yoga.