Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 14 (2023)

The Sociology of Yoga, Meditation, and Asian Asceticism
xii, 254 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-68531-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion

This volume of the Annual Review for the Sociology of Religion adresses the challenges of the diversity and complexity of sociological approaches to Asian forms and dynamics of Asian or Asian-inpired ascetic ideas and practices. Eleven papers, written by scholars conducting researches in different geographic and cultural contexts, all contribute to enrich discussion on the relevance of sociological studies of Yoga, meditation and other ascetic techniques and traditions.

Contributors are: Zuzana Bártová, Loïc Bawidamann, Jørn Borup, Sally SJ Brown, Ugo Dessì, Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger, Marc Lebranchu, Patrick S.D. McCartney, Lionel Obadia, Matteo Di Placido, Alexandros Sakellariou, João Paulo P. Silveira, and Rafael Walthert.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Obadia, Lionel

Pace, Enzo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Sociological Approaches to Yoga and Asceticism: An Introduction, Lionel Obadia

1. Italian Zen and the Ways of Globalization, Ugo Dessì

2. The Yoga Field: A Bourdieusian Account of Yoga's Contested Status, Malleable Character and Hybrid Nature, Matteo Di Placido

3. The Yoga Habitus in Contemporary Greek Society: Religious, Spiritual or Secular Practice?, Alexandros Sakellariou

4. Buddhist Ritual Practices as Religious Practices Adapted to the Middle Class, Zuzana Bártová

5. Spirituality: A Significant Factor in Yoga Accessibility?, Sally SJ Brown

6. Yoga's own "N-word" and Afrakan-inspired Yogic Ethnostates: Kemetic Yoga and "Not Fucking Around" with Colonizing Yogaland's Newest Frontier, Patrick S.D. McCartney

7. Between Market and Domestication: The Quest for the Recognition of Yoga as Religion, Loïc Bawidamann and Rafael Walthert

8. Yoga and Mindfulness as a Fluctuating Field, Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger and Jørn Borup

9. Japanese New Religions during the Pandemic: A Study on Seicho-no-Ie and Shinsokan Meditation in Brazil, João Paulo P. Silveira

10. Connect to Disconnect: The Ambivalent Impact of Smartphone Apps for the Practice of Yoga and Meditation, Lionel Obadia

11. Daoism in the West: From Orientalism to Western Neo-Daoism?, Marc Lebranchu

Über Autor(innen)

Lionel Obadia, PhD, (1999), Université de Lyon, France, is Professor of Anthropology. He is the author of 10 books and editor of 20 books, and has authored 180 chapters and journal articles on religion, Buddhism, magic, witchcraft and globalization.

Enzo Pace is a Professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Padua. He has authored 42 books and several articles on the sociology of Islam, fundamentalism, religious pluralism, and digital religion.