Firstly the contributors investigate facets of the South Asian and Tibetan traditions of yoga
such as the evolution of posture practice the relationship between yoga and sex yoga in the
theistic context the influence of Buddhism on early yoga and the encounter of Islam with
classical yoga. The second part addresses aspects of modern globalised yoga and its historical
formation as for example the emergence of yoga in Viennese occultism the integration of yoga
and nature cure in modern India the eventisation of yoga in a global setting and the
development of Patañjali's iconography.The religious social and cultural contexts of yoga
