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Description: Inhaling Spirit : Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga, Hardcover by Foxen, Anya P., ISBN 0190082739, ISBN-13 9780190082734, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Recent scholarship has shown that modern postural yoga is the outcome of a complex process of transcultural exchange and syncretism. This book doubles down on those claims and digs even deeper, looking to uncover the disparate but entangled roots of modern yoga practice. Anya Foxen shows that
some of what we call yoga, especially in North America and Europe, is genealogically only slightly related to pre-modern Indian yoga traditions. Rather, it is equally, if not more so, grounded in Hellenistic theories of the subtle body, Western esotericism and magic, pre-modern European medicine,
and late-nineteenth-century womens wellness programs. Th begins by examining concepts arising out of Greek philosophy and religion, including Pythagoreanism, Stoicism, Neo-Platonism, Galenic medicine, theurgy, and other cultural currents that have traditionally been categorized as "Western
esotericism," as well as the more recent examples which scholars of American traditions have labeled "metaphysical religion." Marshaling these under the umbrella category of "harmonialism," Foxen argues that they represent a history of practices that were gradually subsumed into the language of
yoga.

Orientalism and gender become important categories of analysis as this narrative moves into the nineteenth century. Women considerably outnumber men in all studies of yoga except those conducted in India, and modern anglophone yoga exhibits important continuities with womens physical culture,
feminist reform, and white womens engagement with Orientalism. Foxens study allows us to recontextualize the peculiarities of American yoga--its focus on aesthetic representation, its privileging of bodily posture and unsystematic incorporation of breathwork, and above all its overwhelmingly white
female demographic. In this context it addresses the ongoing conversation about cultural appropriation within the yoga community.

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Book Title: Inhaling Spirit : Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Root

Item Length: 5.8in

Item Height: 1.1in

Item Width: 9.4in

Author: Anya P. Foxen

Publication Name: Inhaling Spirit : Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication Year: 2020

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 21.1 Oz

Number of Pages: 336 Pages