RELI 257. Yoga: Religion, History, Culture. 1 Credit.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3
Far from a new age health trend, yoga arose in the Indian subcontinent two millennia ago. This course explores the religion, history, and culture of yoga by reading classical yoga texts; examining the rise of guru-based yoga lineages and the development of postural yoga; and studying yoga’s recent global spread.