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Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Contributors
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Part One: Key Figures in Early Twentieth-Century Yoga
1. Manufacturing Yogis: Swami Vivekananda as a Yoga Teacher
2. Remembering Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: The Forgotten Lineage of Integral Yoga
3. Shri Yogendra: Magic, Modernity, and the Burden of the Middle-Class Yogi
Part Two: The Lineages of T. Krishnamacharya
4. T. Krishnamacharya, Father of Modern Yoga
5. “Authorized by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois”: The Role of Paramparā and Lineage in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
6. Becoming an Icon: B. K. S. Iyengar as a Yoga Teacher and a Yoga Guru
7. The Institutionalization of the Yoga Tradition: “Gurus” B. K. S. Iyengar and Yogini Sunita in Britain
Part Three: Tantra-Based Gurus
8. Swami Kṛpālvānanda: The Man behind Kripalu Yoga
9. Muktananda: Entrepreneurial Godman, Tantric Hero
10. Stretching toward the Sacred: John Friend and Anusara Yoga
Part Four: Bhaktiyoga
11. Svāminārāyaṇa: Bhaktiyoga and the Akṣarabrahman Guru
12. Sathya Sai Baba and the Repertoire of Yoga
Part Five: Technology
13. Engineering an Artful Practice: On Jaggi Vasudev’s Isha Yoga and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living
14. Online Bhakti in a Modern Guru Organization
Part Six: Nation-Builders
15. Eknath Ranade, Gurus, and Jīvanvratīs: the Vivekananda Kendra’s Promotion of the “Yoga Way of Life”
16. Swami Ramdev: Modern Yoga Revolutionary
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