The conventional wisdom of scholars over the last several decades has held that yoga became popular in America after the…
Between Mother India and Jim Crow: Yoga in the United States during the interwar decades
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Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once
“Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once” invites readers to the multiverse of religious experiences in Asian America. This set…
India in the American imagination: Historicizing the politics of representation
Continuing to reinforce the centrality of white Protestant capitalist culture to American identity sometimes requires Americans to turn their hostile…
The skull that begs
Is asceticism—and in particular its relation to rationality—the right category around which to frame the history of Hinduism in the…
Judge rules yoga not a threat to separation of church and state
A judge in California ruled on Monday that teaching yoga in public schools does not violate the U.S. Constitution's separation…
Whose Yoga?
NPR's Margot Adler reports on the current popularity of yoga in the United States, and its disassociation with Hinduism. She…
Changing perceptions of yoga: from crime to co-optation
In an article in the Huffington Post, Harvard historian Leigh E. Schmidt relates the Hindu American Foundation's "Take Yoga Back"…
Regulating yoga
As the Washington Post's Maria Glod reports, a group of yoga instructors in Virginia have asked a federal judge to…
Taxing yoga: exercise or spiritual practice?
Earlier this month, the Associated Press reported on a controversy that erupted over the decision by Missouri tax authorities to…
Taxing yoga: exercise or spiritual practice?
Controversy has erupted over a decision by Missouri tax authorities to require yoga centers to collect and pay a sales…