Yoga in Transition: Exploring the Rise of Yoga in Peacebuilding
This article draws connections between the complexities of modern postural yoga practices and global peacebuilding efforts, exploring both tensions and possibilities. First, the article engages key yogic texts--such as Patanjali's Yogasastra, which demonstrates how yoga is historically rooted i...
| Published in: | Religions of South Asia |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Equinox
2017
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| In: |
Religions of South Asia
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Patañjali, Philosopher, Yogasūtra
/ Yoga
/ The Modern
/ Peace efforts
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism NCD Political ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Yogaśāstra
B elicitive peacebuilding B Peacebuilding B modern postural yoga B transrational peace studies |
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| Summary: | This article draws connections between the complexities of modern postural yoga practices and global peacebuilding efforts, exploring both tensions and possibilities. First, the article engages key yogic texts--such as Patanjali's Yogasastra, which demonstrates how yoga is historically rooted in social justice work and peacebuilding--in order to link yoga philosophy and peacebuilding theories. This is followed by an analysis of contemporary practice-based examples, which consider the theoretical tools of elicitive peacework and transrational peace research. Through an exploration of yoga as elicitive peacebuilding and conflict transformation, this article considers if yoga has the potential to shift societal notions of peacebuilding and questions the implications of this for peace theory and practice. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-2697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions of South Asia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/rosa.37026 |