Yoga : Immortality and Freedom

by Mircea Eliade

2020-05-12 03:09:59

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 o... Read more

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.Yogais 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.

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File size8.4x5.4x1.4inches
Print pages568
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Publication date July 1, 2009
ISBN9780691142036
Mircea Eliade (March 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious e...

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