Goldberg Ellen - Gurus of Modern Yoga

Gurus of Modern Yoga

Edited by Mark Singleton
and
Ellen Goldberg

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gurus of modern yoga / edited by Mark Singleton, Ellen Goldberg.
p. cm.
ISBN 9780199938704 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 9780199938728 (pbk : alk. paper) 1. GurusBiography. 2. YogaHistory20th century.
I. Singleton, Mark, 1976 II. Goldberg, Ellen, 1954
BL1171.G87 2013
294.54360922dc23 2013035325

9780199938704
9780199938728 (pbk.)

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Joseph S. Alter has conducted academic research in India since 1981. He teaches anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and has published a number of books, including The Wrestlers Body (1992), Gandhis Body (2000), Yoga in Modern India (2004), and Sex and Masculinity in Modern India (2011). Beyond the study of yoga in contemporary practice, his interests include the cultural history of nature cure as a system of medicine and the natural history of animals in the human imagination.

Gwilym Beckerlegge studied religions at the Universities of Oxford and Lancaster and is currently professor of modern religions in the Department of Religious Studies at The Open University, United Kingdom. His publications include Swami Vivekanandas Legacy of Service: A Study of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission (2006); Colonialism, Modernity and Religious Identities (2008), which he edited; and An Ordinary Organization Run by Ordinary People: A Study of Leadership in Vivekananda Kendra (Contemporary South Asia, vol. 18, pp. 7188, 2010).

Jean Byrne conducts research on the intersection between feminist philosophy and nonduality at the University of Queensland. Her recent publications include Yoga in the Modern World: Contemporary Perspectives (2008), edited with Mark Singleton. She also runs The Yoga Space in Perth, Australia, and is an authorized Ashtanga Yoga teacher.

Charles I. Flores is adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University, associate managing editor of the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, and psychotherapist specializing in the field of addiction and at-risk youth. He has written and worked on issues of diversity, social action, and integral psychology for over fifteen years. His most recent scholarly work focuses on what he calls Evolutionary Spiritual Action.

Tara Fraser has studied, practiced, and taught in a number of hahayoga traditions. For the last thirteen years, her practice has been profoundly influenced by the teaching of T. K. V. Desikachar and his students. She is the author of a number of books on yoga that have been translated into eight languages and sold close to a million copies. She is the founder of the Yoga Junction center, Londons only British Wheel of Yoga (BWY)approved education center, and has served on the BWY Education Committee.

Ann Gleig is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Central Florida at Orlando. She is also an area editor for the anthropology and sociology of religion at Religious Studies Review. Her areas of specialization are Asian religions in America and religion and psychoanalysis. She has recently completed an edited volume, with Lola Williamson, titled Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American Hinduism (2013).

Ellen Goldberg is associate professor of South Asian studies in the School of Religion, Queens University, Canada. She is the author of The Lord Who Is Half Woman: Ardhanrvara in Indian and Feminist Perspective, and has written extensively on yoga including the intersection between yoga and cognitive science. She serves on the editorial board of two journals, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (SAGE) and Literary Discourses: International Journal of Art and Literature (Indira Kala Sangeet University, India) and on the steering committee of the American Academy of Religions Yoga in Theory and Practice Group.

Andrea R. Jain is assistant professor of religious studies at Indiana UniversityPurdue University Indianapolis. Her research interests include theories of religion as well as religion in relation to the body. More specifically, her research focuses on the transnational construction and global popularization of modern yoga. Her current projects include studies on the intersections of consumer culture and modern yoga as well as modern yoga gurus.

Dermot Killingley studied Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit at Merton College, Oxford, from 1955 to 1959 and Middle Iranian languages in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London from 1959 to 1961. He returned to SOAS in 1968 to study Indian philosophy. He taught in the Department of Indian Studies, University of Malaya, from 1961 to 1968; in the Department of Religious Studies, Newcastle University, from 1970 to 2000, when he retired as reader in Hindu studies; and as visiting professor at the University of Vienna in 2008. He is now joint editor (with Anna King and Lynn Foulston) of Religions of South Asia. He has published research on aspects of ancient Indian thought and on modern developments, and has written on Rammohun Roy, Vivekananda, and Radhakrishnan in particular. He has also published a three-volume teaching course, Beginning Sanskrit (1995).

Hanna H. Kim is assistant professor of anthropology at Adelphi University, New York. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, New York. She is working on a book project based on her long-term ethnographic research with the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha. Her recent article titled Public Engagement and Personal Desires: BAPS Swaminarayan Temples and their Contribution to the Discourses on Religion appeared in