TY - JOUR TI - Christianity as the Basis of Wincenty Lutosławski’s “Polish Yoga” AU - Świerzowska, Agata TI - Christianity as the Basis of Wincenty Lutosławski’s “Polish Yoga” AB - The article is an attempt to show the importance of Christianity in the reinterpretation of the Indian yoga tradition, in order to include it in a new (Polish) cultural context. Christianity allowed transformation of this culturally alien concept in such a way that it ceased to be seen as something foreign and exotic, and started to be treated as a Polish discipline –in a way specifically addressing the needs and conditions of the Polish nation. The article focusses on the approach to yoga proposed by Wincenty Lutosławski, the author of the first “Polish yoga”handbook, although other interpretations are also referred to, in order to demonstrate the widest possible approach to this discipline. VL - 2020 IS - Volume 53, Issue 1 PY - 2020 SN - 0137-2432 C1 - 2084-4077 SP - 33 EP - 47 DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.20.003.12506 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/christianity-as-the-basis-of-wincenty-lutoslawskis-polish-yoga KW - Wincenty Lutosławski KW - yoga KW - Christianity KW - esotericism KW - messianism