Yoga in modern India: The body between science and philosophy/
Joseph S. Alter
- Delhi: New Age Books, 2009.
- 326 p.
PART 1 INTRODUCTION AND ORIENTATION Historicizing Yoga: The Life and Times of Liberated Souls Yoga and the Supramental Being: Materialism, Metaphysics, and Social Reality PART 2 YOGA'S MODERN HISTORY AND PRACTICE Swami Kuvalayananda: Science, Yoga, and Global Modernity Birth of the Anti-Clinic: Naturopathic Yoga in a Post-Gandhian, Postcolonial State Dr. Karandikar, Dr. Pal, and the RSS: Purification, Subtle Gymnastics, and Man Making PART 3 CONCLUSION Auto-Urine Therapy—The Elixir of Life: Yoga, Ayurveda, and Self-Perfection Mimetic Skepticism and Yoga: Moving beyond the Problem of Culture and Relativism