Wissenschaftliche Literatur zu den südasiatischen Yogatraditionen

Debra Diamond, Yoga: The Art of Transformation. Washington, DC 2013.

James Mallinson, Mark Singleton, Roots of Yoga. London 2017.

Ian Whicher and David Carpenter (eds.), Yoga. The Indian Tradition. London, New York 2003.

David White (ed.), Yoga in Practice. Princeton 2012.

Karl Baier, Philipp André Maas, Karin Preisendanz (eds.): Yoga in Transformation. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Göttingen 2018 (Erscheinungsdatum voraussichtlich August 2018, enthält auch Beiträge zum modernen Yoga).

Wissenschaftliche Literatur zur Geschichte und Kultur des modernen Yoga

Joseph S. Alter, Yoga in Modern India. The Body between Science and Philosophy, Princeton, Oxford 2004.

Karl Baier, Modern Yoga Studies. Ergebnisse und Problemzonen einer jungen Disziplin. In: Bernd Jochen Hilberath, Clemens Mendonca (Hg.): Begegnen statt importieren. Zum Verhältnis von Religion und Kultur. Festschrift zum 75. Geburtstag von Francis X. D´Sa. Ostfildern 2011, 214-239.

Elliot Goldberg, The Path of Modern Yoga. The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice. Rochester 2016.

Suzanne Hasselle-Newcombe, Spirituality and ‚Mystical Religion‘ in Contemporary Society. A Case Study of British Practitioners of the Iyengar Method of Yoga, in: Journal of Contemporary Religion 20 (2005), Heft 3, 305–321.

Beatrix Hauser, Yoga Traveling. Bodily Practice in Transcultural Perspective. Cham, Heidelberg etc. 2013.

Andrea R. Jain, Selling Yoga. From Counterculture to Pop Culture. Oxford 2015.

Elizabeth De Michelis, A History of Modern Yoga: Patañjali and Western Esotericism, London 2004.

Mark Singleton, Yoga Body. The Origins of Modern Posture Practice, Oxford 2010.

Mark Singleton, Jean Byrne (eds.), Yoga in the Modern World. Contemporary Perspectives. London, New York 2008.

Mark Singleton, Ellen Goldberg (eds.), Gurus of Modern Yoga. Oxford, New York 2014.