Yoga: Methods and Goals
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This FIG will provide a broad overview of the religious traditions of Asia with a more specific focus on the history and certain aspects of Hinduism and Buddhism in South Asia. "273 Religion in History and Culture: The East" is a survey of the major religious traditions of Asia. "142 History of South Asia" focuses on the history of South Asia. The core course, "Yoga: Methods and Goals" traces the development of religious practices subsumed under the name Yoga in South Asia from early to modern times. In the Western world, some aspects of Yoga, such as body postures, have attracted much attention, but the larger cultural context of the phenomenon of Yoga and its philosophical underpinnings have remained generally unknown to a wider audience. This course explores Yoga techniques propagated in the ancient Indian texts, as well as their adaptations in the Western world.

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