Suggestive Therapeutics
New Thought's Relationship to Modern Yoga
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20237302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Singleton (0000-0003-0203-0185, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-84 |
| Publication date | 2007-10-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1573-420X • E-ISSN: 1573-4218 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157342107x207218 |
| OpenAlex | W1971199515 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 11 |
Modern, transnational yoga in the early twentieth century often defined itself in terms and ideologies borrowed from the popular current of esoteric American Protestantism known as New Thought. Like its forebear Transcendentalism, the New Thought movement was itself receptive to Indian ideas, albeit radically reworked to fit the doctrine of divinised self-hood and cosmic healing that it purveyed. Such adaptations were dialectically reabsorbed by exponents of the yoga renaissance, in a mutually reinforcing, cross-cultural rewriting of the theoretical bases and practices of yoga. New Thought provided a convenient and familiar spiritual lexicon with which to convey the arcane truths of yoga to Europeans, Americans and (increasingly) modern Hindus. The result was a new understanding of yoga in terms of the cult of positive thinking, personal power and affluence, and health through perfect harmony with the universe
Aesthetics · Art · Cult · Doctrine · Epistemology · Ideology · Meditation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Yoga
A religious history of the American people
America, religions and religion
Tibetan Medicine and Biomedicine
Modern Medical Yoga
Globalization
The New Thought Movement and the Nineteenth Century Discovery of Oriental Philosophy
The Early Spread of Vedanta Societies
Bhakti and the British Empire
Body Salvation
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |