Peace Love Yoga - The Politics of Global Spirituality

About the author

Andrea R. Jain, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and author of Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture. Her areas of research include religion under neoliberal capitalism; global yoga; South Asian religions; sexuality, embodiment, and religion; and theories of religion.

Summary

Engaging with the growing popular and academic interest in the "spiritual but not religious," Andrea R. Jain explores the connections between the practices of global spirituality and aspects of neoliberal capitalism in Peace Love Yoga.

Additional text

Peace Love Yoga offers an original analysis of the sociocultural consequences of the global yoga movement, consolidating Jain's status as a leading international scholar of this popular practice

Product details

• Authors: Andrea R. Jain, Andrea R. (Associate Professor of Religious Jain
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2020
• EAN: 9780190888626
• ISBN: 978-0-19-088862-6
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Relaxation, yoga, meditation, autogenic training; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought