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Weird, Wacky, and Contradictory Yoga: 7 Questions for Anya P. Foxen

September 20, 2017 1 Comment

Anya P. Foxen For the purposes of this book, religion is the possibility of the human to become superhuman.

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7 Questions for Andrea R. Jain

January 11, 2016 Leave a Comment

Andrea R. Jain One difficult thing about writing Selling Yoga, though it was not surprising, is that contemporary popular culture defies the ability to locate any cultural object at one site or sites. And in the case of pop-culture yoga, we cannot locate it in my chosen sites alone. However, as a practical move, I had to select my examples as windows into the incalculable sites of the construction, dissemination, and practice of yoga. I had to carefully select from case studies in my effort to demonstrate that the postural practice we most associate with yoga today underwent global popularization as a consequence of its coincidence with transnational cultural developments.

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The Weight of the Guru: A Review of Kumaré

September 18, 2014 Leave a Comment

By Anandi Leela Salinas In Sanskrit, the term guru is defined as: “important,” “valuable,” “respectable,” and “heavy,” in addition to the definition that finds more currency in 21st century America: spiritual teacher in a general “Eastern” tradition. There have been a

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