Eknath Ranade, Gurus, and Jīvanvratīs: the Vivekananda Kendra’s Promotion of the “Yoga Way of Life”
Chapter from Gurus Of Modern Yoga
Vivekananda
What is Yogic Gnosticism? Demarcating an Elite Ritual Identity Worth Reconsidering
In this paper I gather core definitional components of yogic Gnosticism (aka jñāna-yoga/ the yoga of knowledge), which I produced for a forthcoming monograph (Metaphysics as Therapy, Springer, April 2025) on the use of taxonomy in the spiritual exercises of gnostic yogas
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The Swami Circuit: Mapping the Terrain of Early American Yoga
This article provides an overview to what the author has termed “early American yoga,” yoga as it was understood in the United States from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century
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