Between the 1960s and 2010s, yoga became a familiar feature of American culture, including its Christian subcultures. This article examines Christian yoga and public-school yoga as windows onto the fraught relationship between Christianity and culture. Yoga is a flashpoint for divisions among Christians and between them and others. Some evangelicals and pentecostals view yoga as idolatry or an opening to demonic spirits; others fill gaps in Christian practice by using linguistic substitution to Christianize yoga. In 2013, evangelical parents in California sued the Encinitas Union School District (EUSD) for promoting Hinduism through Ashtanga yoga. Sedlock v. Baird's failure to dislodge yoga exposes tensions in Christian anti-yoga and pro-yo...
Complementary and alternative medicines have soared in popularity among US adolescents and adults as...
An analysis of the appropriation of yoga by Catholic ashrams in India. Specifically, the article ex...
To begin let me quote NA 2 of Vatican II where it says: “The Catholic rejects nothing of what is tru...
abstract: This work examines the spectrum of Christian attitudes toward yoga as demonstrative of con...
A growing movement courts fear of contemporary popularized forms of modern yoga, warning that yoga i...
This thesis is divided into four main parts. Part one examines the origin of Hindu yoga practice. I...
Yoga is an increasingly visible and versatile commodity in the United States health market. Though i...
The yogic phenomenon in the West is multi-dimensional and threads through areas of history (DeMichel...
This thesis argues that yoga is a suitable practice to meet the goals of Christian spiritual formati...
Houston is a wildly diverse city; nonetheless it should come as no surprise that the Houston Chronic...
FOR over three thousand years, people have attached divergent meanings and functions to yoga. Its hi...
Christian congregations find themselves caught in a polarized cultural environment which can lead to...
The paper begins by drawing out current issues that have been raised by critics concerning the conte...
This thesis enters a burgeoning and often contentious conversation about the advisability and viabil...
IN recent years numerous reports have appeared in the news about the objections of various Hindu and...
Complementary and alternative medicines have soared in popularity among US adolescents and adults as...
An analysis of the appropriation of yoga by Catholic ashrams in India. Specifically, the article ex...
To begin let me quote NA 2 of Vatican II where it says: “The Catholic rejects nothing of what is tru...
abstract: This work examines the spectrum of Christian attitudes toward yoga as demonstrative of con...
A growing movement courts fear of contemporary popularized forms of modern yoga, warning that yoga i...
This thesis is divided into four main parts. Part one examines the origin of Hindu yoga practice. I...
Yoga is an increasingly visible and versatile commodity in the United States health market. Though i...
The yogic phenomenon in the West is multi-dimensional and threads through areas of history (DeMichel...
This thesis argues that yoga is a suitable practice to meet the goals of Christian spiritual formati...
Houston is a wildly diverse city; nonetheless it should come as no surprise that the Houston Chronic...
FOR over three thousand years, people have attached divergent meanings and functions to yoga. Its hi...
Christian congregations find themselves caught in a polarized cultural environment which can lead to...
The paper begins by drawing out current issues that have been raised by critics concerning the conte...
This thesis enters a burgeoning and often contentious conversation about the advisability and viabil...
IN recent years numerous reports have appeared in the news about the objections of various Hindu and...
Complementary and alternative medicines have soared in popularity among US adolescents and adults as...
An analysis of the appropriation of yoga by Catholic ashrams in India. Specifically, the article ex...
To begin let me quote NA 2 of Vatican II where it says: “The Catholic rejects nothing of what is tru...