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Gurus of Modern Yoga explores the contributions that individual gurus have made to the formation of the practices and discourses of yoga in today's world. The focus is not limited to India, but also extends to the teachings of yoga gurus in the modern, transnational world, and within the Hindu diaspora. Each of the sections deals with a different aspect of the guru within modern yoga. Included are extensive considerations of the transnational tantric guru; the teachings of modern yoga's best-known guru, T. Krishnamacharya, and those of his principal disciples; the place of technology, business and politics in the work of global yoga gurus; and the role of science and medicine. Although the principal emphasis is on the current situation, some of the essays demonstrate the continuing influence of gurus from generations past. As a whole, the book represents an extensive and diverse picture of the place of the guru in contemporary yoga practice.

About the Author
Mark Singleton is an Instructor at St. John's College. Ellen Goldberg is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions at Queen's University, Canada.

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Gurus of Modern Yoga offers needed treatments of contemporary figures whose current popularity far exceeds existing scholarly work on themincluding Swami Ramdev, Sri Ravi Shankar, and Jaggi Vasudevas well as several chapters on Krishnamacharya and his heirs. * Philip Deslippe, Nova Religio *
This fascinating collection of essays records the historical and sociological developments within particular yoga communities impacted by modernity, globalism, consumerism, competition, and technology...It is a rich contribution to the field. Recommended. * CHOICE *
Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg have put together an enlightening survey of the leading yoga gurus from around the world within the Hindu diaspora. * Spirituality Practice *
Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg have assembled a group of essays that combine critical rigor with sympathetic insight, including many by authors with extensive personal background in the practice of yoga. It is a welcome development that the scholar-practitioner model is becoming an accepted part of the study of Indian religions. This excellent book will likely become the go-to resource for the study of modern gurus and guru-based movements. * Andrew J. Nicholson, Stony Brook University *
In Gurus of Modern Yoga, Singleton and Goldberg have compiled a vast and fascinating collection of essays * Kimberley Pingatore, religion *



Book Information
ISBN 9780199938704
Author Mark Singleton
Format Hardback
Page Count 416
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 712g
Dimensions(mm) 160mm * 236mm * 25mm

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