Andrea R. Jain on Cultural Appropriation & Essentializing Yoga (#71) By Jacob Kyle Posted on May 3, 2018 #Ethics#Yoga About the Guest: Andrea R. Jain, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, editor of the Journal of American Academy of Religion, and author of Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014). She received her doctorate degree in religious studies from Rice University in 2010. Her areas of research include religion in late capitalist society; South Asian religions; the history of modern yoga; the intersections of gender, sexuality, and religion; and methods and theories in the study of religion. She is a regular contributor to Religion Dispatches on topics related to yoga in contemporary culture and co-chair of the Yoga in Theory and Practice Group of the American Academy of Religion. Take the podcast with you Subscribe in your favourite app Read more like this #Ethics #Research A Less Obvious Problem: Spirituality As Bypass Existence is bondage to bodily experiences of emotion, excrement, illness, pain, and death. By Serenity Tedesco #Philosophy #Yoga Yoga & Western Esotericism with Anya Foxen (#148) In her research, Anya Foxen focuses on the intersection of South Asian yogic and tantric traditions and Western esotericism and metaphysical spiritualities. By Jacob Kyle #Ethics #Interdisciplinary Re-Membering Our Relation to the Earth Soil for Ecologically Sound Cities Climate Emergency, Pandemic, Racial Injustice – all point to humanity’s fatal error. Humanity is not the superior species on the Earth nor is any particular human group more superior than others. By Jean Gardner #Psychology #Yoga The Anxious World: A Physiological Exploration of an Embodied Perspective Our primary stress comes from living in shame and fear, often resulting from misidentification with the image/objective world, and often with the past traumas and experiences where we were forced to react to ordinary situations in survival mode. By Chris Walling