Fascist Yoga - Stewart Home

Fascist Yoga

Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness

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Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2025
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-5112-4 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
The weird and disturbing history of the cult of Yoga
The practice of yoga promises peace, self-realisation and release, thanks to the power of its 'mystic' Indian origins. But what if this is just hype? In Fascist Yoga, Stewart Home sweeps away the half-truths to tell a new origin story of the world’s first modern yogi – a Californian escapologist who added some Hindu fairy dust to gym and circus exercises.



Ever since, the world of yoga has been full of grifters, occultists and white supremacists, all out to exploit and recruit via the medium of exercise. From cult leaders to brainwashed followers, TV celebrities and fake gurus, the story of yoga has involved some of the strangest currents of humanity.



Today, the COVID pandemic has activated elements within the modern yoga movement to espouse far-right conspiracies, and QAnon’s fascist political programmes mirror some of yoga’s key early proponents.



In this new exposé, Stewart Home shows that nothing is sacred.

Stewart Home is a legend of counterculture. He is an artist, filmmaker, pamphleteer, art historian and activist, and the author of countless pulp fictions, including most recently Art School Orgy and She’s My Witch. He regularly performs to audiences across the world and recently started making headstand paintings with the canvas placed above him and brushes held in his toes. He was born and lives in London.

Introduction

1. Was Yoga Invented by Pierre Bernard in California at the Start of the 20th Century?

2. Fascist Yoga

3. Yoga in the UK & USA after the Military Defeat of Fascism: Mail Order Courses, Books, Media Features, Celebrity Endorsements and Yogic Televangelism

4. Frank Rudolph Young, and Yoga for the Aspiring Muscle Man Who Wants a Wife Half His Age

Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.5.2025
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Östliche Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-7453-5112-3 / 0745351123
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-5112-4 / 9780745351124
Zustand Neuware
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