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 #Yoga Shreena Gandhi on White Supremacy (#134) Shreena Gandhi is a part of the Religious Studies Department at Michigan State University, where is primarily teaches classes on religion and race in the Americas. By Jacob Kyle #Neuroscience #Yoga The Homunculus Yoga Project The Latin word “homunculus” or “little man” was first used in the late 1500’s as a theory of thought of gestation that each man carried a complete little man inside himself. By Tonja Bennett #Ethics #Traditions Is the Hindu Goddess a Feminist? The question of the Hindu goddess’s feminism is embedded within the larger question of the instrumentality of religion in the post-colonial nation and thus moves far afield of a de-contextualised if more focused consideration of an answer. By Rajeswari Sunder Rajan #Ethics #Traditions On McMindfulness & Frozen Yoga An emerging need to manage the stress and dissatisfaction of busy lives by looking inward for peace and stillness has motivated many to participate in the yoga revolution, which has become a multibilliondollar industry in America. By Miles Neale