A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism

by Elizabeth De Michelis

A History of Modern Yoga traces the roots of Modern Yoga back to the spread of western esoteric ideas in 18th century Bengal's intellectual circles. In due course Raja Yoga, published by Vivekananda in 1896, became the seminal text of Modern Yoga largely because, the author shows, it reconfigured the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali along the lines of a then emerging New Age occultistic style of secularised and individualistically oriented religiosity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826487726
• ISBN13: 9780826487728
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"