Contributors ; Note on Transliteration ; Introduction - Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg ; Part One: Key Figures in Early Twentieth-Century Yoga ; Chapter 1: Manufacturing Yogis: Swami Vivekananda as a Yoga Teacher - Dermot Killingley ; Chapter 2: Remembering Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: The Forgotten Lineage of Integral Yoga - Ann Gleig and Charles I. Flores ; Chapter 3: Shri Yogendra: Magic, Modernity and the Burden of the Middle-Class Yogi - Joseph S. Alter ; Part Two: The Lineages of T. Krishnamacharya ; Chapter 4: T. Krishnamacharya, "Father of Modern Yoga" - Mark Singleton and Tara Fraser ; Chapter 5: "Authorized by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois": The Role of Parampara and Lineage in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga - Jean Byrne ; Chapter 6: B.K.S. Iyengar as a Yoga Teacher and Yoga Guru - Frederick M. Smith and Joan White ; Chapter 7: The Institutionalization of the Yoga Tradition: "Gurus" B. K. S. Iyengar and Yogini Sunita in Britain - Suzanne Newcombe ; Part Three: Tantra Based Gurus ; Chapter 8: Swami Krpalvananda: The Man Behind Kripalu Yoga - Ellen Goldberg ; Chapter 9: Muktananda: Entrepreneurial Godman, Tantric Hero - Andrea R. Jain ; Chapter 10: Stretching toward the Sacred: John Friend and Anusara Yoga - Lola Williamson ; Part Four: Bhaktiyoga ; Chapter 11: Svaminarayana: Bhaktiyoga and the Aksarabhraman Guru - Hanna H. Kim ; Chapter 12: Sathya Sai Baba and the Repertoire of Yoga - Smriti Srinivas ; Part Five: Technology ; Chapter 13: Engineering an Artful Practice: On Jaggi Vasudev's ISHA Yoga and Sri Sri Ravi Shakar's Art of Living - Joanne Punzo Waghorne ; Chapter 14: Online Bhakti in a Modern Guru Organization - Maya Warrier ; Part Six: Nation-Builders ; Chapter 15: Eknath Ranade, Gurus and Jivanvratis (life-workers): Vivekananda Kendra's Promotion of the "Yoga Way of Life" - Gwilym Beckerlegge ; Chapter 16: Swami Ramdev: Modern Yoga Revolutionary - Stuart Sarbacker ; Index

"Gurus of Modern Yoga offers needed treatments of contemporary figures whose current popularity far exceeds existing scholarly work on them-including Swami Ramdev, Sri Ravi Shankar, and Jaggi Vasudev-as well as several chapters on Krishnamacharya and his heirs."--Philip Deslippe, Nova Religio "This fascinating collection of essays records the historical and sociological developments within particular yoga communities impacted by modernity, globalism, consumerism, competition, and technology...It is a rich contribution to the field. Recommended." --CHOICE "Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg have put together an enlightening survey of the leading yoga gurus from around the world within the Hindu diaspora." --Spirituality Practice "Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg have assembled a group of essays that combine critical rigor with sympathetic insight, including many by authors with extensive personal background in the practice of yoga. It is a welcome development that the scholar-practitioner model is becoming an accepted part of the study of Indian religions. This excellent book will likely become the go-to resource for the study of modern gurus and guru-based movements." --Andrew J. Nicholson, Stony Brook University "This is a well-organized volume and a great resource. The essays present interesting biographies and fascinating developments of a worldwide spiritual industry that in the U.S. alone has an annual sale of supposedly more than $27 billion." --Numen