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    Is Academia (Like) a Religion?

    Scholars are practitioners of academia. Many people, initially in the West and eventually globally, have had a millennium to imagine the knowledge and research that are data for academia, which is solely the creation of scholars’ studies. It is created…

    By Marcy Braverman Goldstein

    God is Queer: A Personal Confession of a Polemical Nature

    In many religious environments around the world, being gay, gender-bending, or otherwise queer is considered a surefire recipe for eternal damnation.

    By Jacob Kyle

    From Faculty & Friends: Jeffrey S. Lidke

    From my perspective a scholar-practitioner is someone who consciously integrates into his or her scholarship the insights culled from engaging in the practices prescribed by the tradition he or she researches, publishes about and teaches.

    By Jeffrey S. Lidke

    From Faculty & Friends: Rita D. Sherma

    My practice deeply informs my scholarship because I’ve become aware of the contemplative hermeneutics underlying the visual material and textual cultures of the traditions that I teach.

    By Rita D. Sherman

    From Faculty & Friends: Ramdas Lamb

    My daily practice is an essential aspect of life, no less important than eating, exercising, and sleeping. What the latter three do for the body, contemplative and other related practices do for the mind. They nourish, strengthen, and also provide rest. They help to bring the mind to a place of both stillness and strength, through which awareness is heightened, and thinking can be done with focus and clarity.

    By Ramdas Lamb
    #Ethics #Practice

    The Ecology of Tantra: Why Yogis Eat Carrots Rather Than Cows

    To live a life according to the wisdom of ecology is the most urgent task for humanity today. What can the philosophy of yoga contribute to this critical challenge? How can we develop an environmental ethics according to yogic principles? What would a sustainable ethics based on yoga look like?

    By Ramesh Bjonnes
    #Ethics #Spirituality

    Shoulders to the Wheel

    What is queer dharma? How does it serve the greater good? How can it provide a path toward healing during this year of global pandemic and social unrest?

    By Christopher Rzigalinski
    #Interdisciplinary #Philosophy

    Uncovering Nature from Within

    We live the experience of divine ecology because we are nature. We are of the earth and know ourselves through…

    By Carryn Mills
    #Traditions #Yoga

    The Perils of Becoming a Gopī

    These traditions, which seem to indicate a fluid and mutable approach to gender identities—often rooted in the idea that gender can be exchanged or, ultimately, transcended, are of increasing interest to queer practitioners seeking to examine religious traditions that embody the performative nature of gender.

    By Phil Hine
    #Philosophy #Traditions

    Yoga Sutras, Abridged

    The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a masterwork of spirituality, psychology and philosophy, are attributed to Patanjali. Compiled a few hundred years before the Common Era, these teachings arose out of a most prolific and sophisticated civilization – ancient India.

    By Lisa Dawn Angerame
    #Philosophy #Yoga

    Yoga Apologia

    My forthcoming considerations may be seen as situated in a tradition of apologetics, if we understand something different by that word.

    By Jacob Kyle
    #Key Figures #Traditions

    In the Service of Truth

    This personal essay will focus on various issues which arise when one is a scholar-practitioner in a spiritual tradition.

    By Jeffery Long
    #Philosophy #Traditions

    What is Pramāṇa?

    Pramāṇa means right knowledge, a correct understanding of reality that can be acquired in one of three ways: sense perception, logic, and verbal testimony as the sources for the acquisition of valid knowledge.

    By Hari-kirtana das
    #Pedagogy #Practice

    Study? Practice? Can the Two be Integrated?

    This article discusses the history of the university, analyzes the challenge of modernity and post-modernity, and affirms the efficacy of integrating study and practice.

    By Christopher Key Chapple
    #Practice #Traditions

    What is Mālā?

    Mālā literally means “garland.” Japa mālās are a string of beads used to count mantras. They have been used for centuries in India as a spiritual tool for meditation and prayer.

    By Prāṇadā Comtois
    #Practice #Yoga

    How Could the Body be the Self?

    Most of modern yoga is done with the Advaitic intention of oneness, even if its practitioners don’t know it! And though the boundaries have become so blurry over time that we accept the integration of these two systems without even questioning it, it is important to realize what a huge leap it originally was to incorporate dualistic yoga into the non-dualistic system of Advaita.

    By Zoë Slatoff
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