Research Catalog

Title

Food for the soul : vegetarianism and yoga traditions / Steven J. Rosen, editor.

Publication

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rosen, Steven, 1955-

Description

xvi, 166 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This revealing compilation of essays by prominent practitioners and well-informed scholars lays to bear one simple truth: One must be a vegetarian to properly practice Yoga"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Vegetarianism
• Vegetarianism > Moral and ethical aspects
• Yoga > Psychological aspects
• Diet, Vegetarian > psychology
• Feeding Behavior > ethics
• Feeding Behavior > psychology
• Spirituality
• Yoga > psychology
• Diet, Vegetarian

Genre/Form

Essays

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Steven J. Rosen -- The yoga of eating: Food wars and their attendant ideologies / E.H. Jarrow -- Burgers or buns : A brief look at whether a yogi should be a vegetarian / Steven J. Rosen -- Ahimsa in the patanjali yoga tradition / Edwin Bryant -- Ashtanga yoga body : Feel your way to enlightened eating / Kino MacGregor -- We are what we eat : Sri Swami Satchidananda on vegetarianism / Rev. Sandra Kumari de Sachy -- From darkness to light : Vegetarianism and the yogi's emergence into clear perception / Natalie J. Ullmann -- Maharishi's message : Vegetarianism as natural evolution / David P. Carter and Marguerite Regan -- Roots, shoots, and ahimsa : The Jain yoga of vegetarianism / Christopher Key Chapple -- Bhakti-yoga : Reflections on the spirituality of eating / Joshua M. Greene -- Krishna-yoga and the spiritualization of vegetarianism / Steven J. Rosen -- Afterword / Steven J. Rosen.

ISBN

• 9780313397035 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 0313397031 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9780313397042 (e-ISBN)
• 031339704X (e-ISBN)

LCCN

^^2011000975

OCLC

676729119

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library