Gurus of Modern Yoga

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

• Contributors ; Note on Transliteration ; Introduction - Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg ; Part One: Key Figures in Early Twentieth-Century Yoga ; Chapter 1: Manufacturing Yogis: Swami Vivekananda as a Yoga Teacher - Dermot Killingley ; Chapter 2: Remembering Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: The Forgotten Lineage of Integral Yoga - Ann Gleig and Charles I. Flores ; Chapter 3: Shri Yogendra: Magic, Modernity and the Burden of the Middle-Class Yogi - Joseph S. Alter ; Part Two: The Lineages of T. Krishnamacharya ; Chapter 4: T. Krishnamacharya, "Father of Modern Yoga" - Mark Singleton and Tara Fraser ; Chapter 5: "Authorized by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois": The Role of Parampara and Lineage in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga - Jean Byrne ; Chapter 6: B.K.S. Iyengar as a Yoga Teacher and Yoga Guru - Frederick M. Smith and Joan White ; Chapter 7: The Institutionalization of the Yoga Tradition: "Gurus" B. K. S. Iyengar and Yogini Sunita in Britain - Suzanne Newcombe ; Part Three: Tantra Based Gurus ; Chapter 8: Swami Krpalvananda: The Man Behind Kripalu Yoga - Ellen Goldberg ; Chapter 9: Muktananda: Entrepreneurial Godman, Tantric Hero - Andrea R. Jain ; Chapter 10: Stretching toward the Sacred: John Friend and Anusara Yoga - Lola Williamson ; Part Four: Bhaktiyoga ; Chapter 11: Svaminarayana: Bhaktiyoga and the Aksarabhraman Guru - Hanna H. Kim ; Chapter 12: Sathya Sai Baba and the Repertoire of Yoga - Smriti Srinivas ; Part Five: Technology ; Chapter 13: Engineering an Artful Practice: On Jaggi Vasudev's ISHA Yoga and Sri Sri Ravi Shakar's Art of Living - Joanne Punzo Waghorne ; Chapter 14: Online Bhakti in a Modern Guru Organization - Maya Warrier ; Part Six: Nation-Builders ; Chapter 15: Eknath Ranade, Gurus and Jivanvratis (life-workers): Vivekananda Kendra's Promotion of the "Yoga Way of Life" - Gwilym Beckerlegge ; Chapter 16: Swami Ramdev: Modern Yoga Revolutionary - Stuart Sarbacker ; Index

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.