Stuart Ray Sarbacker

Kevin Kimple

"A handbook providing a concise by comprehensive overview of yoga practice that bridges the academic and the practical"--

A Handbook for Living Yoga Philosophy

The Eight Limbs of Yoga

Clear, accessible, and meticulously annotated, Tracing the Path of Yoga offers a comprehensive survey of the history and philosophy of yoga that will be invaluable to both specialists and to nonspecialists seeking a deeper understanding of this fascinating subject. Stuart Ray Sarbacker argues that yoga can be understood first and foremost as a discipline of mind and body that is represented in its narrative and philosophical literature as resulting in both numinous and cessative accomplishments that correspond, respectively, to the attainment of this-worldly power and otherworldly liberation. Sarbacker demonstrates how the yogic quest for perfection as such is situated within the concrete realities of human life, intersecting with issues of politics, economics, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as reflecting larger Indic religious and philosophical ideals.

The History and Philosophy of Indian Mind-Body Discipline

Tracing the Path of Yoga

Explores yoga and meditation in Eastern religions, incorporating psychological and social aspects of these practices. A historical and comparative study grounded in close readings of important works, this book explores the dynamics of the theory and practice of yoga in Hindu and Buddhist contexts. Author Stuart Ray Sarbacker explores the fascinating, contrasting perceptions that meditation leads to the attainment of divine, or numinous, power, and to complete escape from worldly existence, or cessation. Sarbacker demonstrates that these two dimensions of spiritual experience have affected the doctrine and cultural significance of yoga from its origins to its contemporary practice. He also integrates sociological and psychological perspectives on religious experience into a larger phenomenological model to address the multifaceted nature of religious experience. Speaking to a broad range of methodological and contextual issues, Samadhi provides numerous insights into the theory and practice of yoga that are relevant to both scholars of religious studies and practitioners of contemporary yoga and meditation traditions. Stuart Ray Sarbacker is Lecturer in Religion at Northwestern University.

The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga

Samadhi

Explores yoga and meditation in Eastern religions, incorporating psychological and social aspects of these practices.

Stuart Ray Sarbacker

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