Anya P. Foxen and Christa Kuberry, "Is this Yoga?: Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Modern Practice" (Routledge, 2021)

New Books in Indian Religions · Jul 14, 2021 · 39m

This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga. Anya P. Foxen and Christa Kuberry's Is this Yoga?: Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Modern Practice (Routledge, 2021) recognizes the importance of contemporary understandings of yoga and, at the same time, provides historical context and complexity to modern and pre-modern definitions of yogic ideas and practices. Approaching yoga as a vast web of concepts, traditions, social interests, and embodied practices, it raises questions of knowledge, identity, and power across time and space…