Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lucia, Amanda
• Bernardo E. Brown
• Brenda S.A. Yeoh
• Brown, Bernardo
• Yeoh, Brenda S.A

Titel

Saving Yogis: Spiritual Nationalism and the Proselytizing Missions of Global Yoga

Ist Teil von

• Asian Migrants and Religious Experience, 2018, Vol.2, p.35-70

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Many contemporary postural yoga practitioners believe that postural yoga is an ancient spiritual practice birthed on the Indian subcontinent approximately 5000 years ago. The Indian government has reinforced this common popular understanding by revitalizing and claiming yoga as a product of India through global extravaganzas, like the inaugural International Yoga Day (IYD) on 21 June 2015 (Associated Press 2015). In a speech at the United Nations leading up to the 2015 IYD celebrations, Indian Prime Minister (PM), Narendra Modi characterized yoga as “an invaluable gift of ancient Indian tradition” (Suri 2015). Yoga has been similarly framed as India’s gift to