Yoga - Immortality and Freedom

Zusatztext "This is . . . a book that will . . . whet the appetite of your intellect. It also offers the reader so much more insight into the tenets of yoga than the multitude of self-help books on meditation and how-to-do-yoga will ever give. In Yoga: Immortality and Freedom , Eliade analyzes in detail a religion and tradition that for years was his lifestyle. Get ready for some massive reading." ---Minna Forsell, Metaspychology Online Reviews Informationen zum Autor Mircea EliadeTranslated from the French by Willard R. TraskWith a new introduction by David Gordon White Klappentext Translation of Le yoga: immortalite et liberte. Zusammenfassung In this landmark book, first published in English in 1958, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the twentieth century. A new introduction by David Gordon White provides invaluable insight into Eliade's life and work, highlighting the key moments in Eliade's academic and spiritual education, as well as the personal experiences that shaped his worldview. Yoga is not only one of Eliade's most important books, it is also his most personal--the only one to analyze a religious tradition that he had truly lived.

Product details

• Authors: Mircea Eliade, Mircea/ Trask Eliade, Eliade Mircea
• Assisted by: David Gordon White (Introduction), White David Gordon (Introduction), Willard R. Trask (Translation), Trask Willard R. (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.07.2009
• EAN: 9780691142036
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14203-6
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Princeton University Press; Princeton Classic Editions; Princeton University Press; Princeton Classic Editions; Bollingen Series (General); Bollingen Series; Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology; Mythos: The Princeton/Bollinge; Works of Mircea Eliade
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions; HEALTH & FITNESS / Yoga, RELIGION / Eastern, Yoga for exercise, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Religious life & practice, East Asian religions