21st century yoga : culture, politics, and practice / edited by Carol Horton and Roseanne Harvey

Additional Titles: Twenty first century yoga
Published: Chicago, IL : Kleio Books, 2012.
Physical Description: xvii, 201 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Creators: Horton, Carol A. and Harvey, Roseanne

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Contents

1. Enlightenment 2.0: The American Yoga Experiment -- 2. How Yoga Makes You Pretty: The Beauty Myth, Yoga and Me -- 3. Questioning the "Body Beautiful": Yoga, Commercialism, and Discernment -- 4. Bifurcated Spiritualities: Examining Mind/Body Splits in the North American Yoga and Zen Communitites -- 5. Starved for Connection: Healing Anorexia Through Yoga -- 6. Yoga and the 12 Steps: Holistic Recovery from Addiction -- 7. Modern Yoga Will Not Form a Real Culture Until Every Studio Can Also Double as a Soup Kitchen and other observations from the threshold between yoga and activism -- 8. Yoga for War: The Politics of the Divine -- 9. Our True Nature is Our Imagination: Yoga and Non-Violence at the Edge of the World -- 10. How Yoga Messed With My Mind.

Subject(s)

Hatha yoga

ISBN

9780615617602
0615617603

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-195) and index.

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