Peace Love Yoga : The Politics of Global Spirituality

225 Pages·2020·7.509 MB·English

by  Andrea R. Jain

Peace Love Yoga

Peace Love Yoga
The Politics of Global Spirituality
ANDREA R. JAIN
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Names: Jain, Andrea R., author.
Title: Peace love yoga : the politics of global spirituality / Andrea R. Jain.
Description: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2020. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020008381 (print) | LCCN 2020008382 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780190888626 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190888633 (paperback) |
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Subjects: LCSH: Spirituality. Classification: LCC BL624 .J55 2020 (print) |
LCC BL624 (ebook) | DDC 204.09/051—dc23
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For my dear friends. Connections are everything.
If solutions within the system are so impossible to find, maybe we
should change the system itself.
— Greta Thunberg, addressing the COP24 climate talks in Katowice,
Poland, December 12, 2018
Contents
no bad vibes: An Introduction 1
1. breathe practice repeat: Theorizing Neoliberal Spirituality,
or, Religion under Neoliberal Capitalism 17
2. good karma: Debating Authenticity in the Study of Neoliberal
Spirituality 47
3. namaste all day: Appropriating and Commodifying the
Ancient, Exotic, and Evocative 71
4. self love club: Neoliberal Feminism and the Call to Heal the
Self, Not the System 101
5. made in bharat: Yoga as Political Ritual 131
an inside job: Concluding Remarks 157
Acknowledgments 175
Bibliography 179
Index 203

Peace Love Yoga