“The Power of Context, Identity, and Capital: Three Books Interrogating Spirituality and Yoga Published in 2020.” American Academy of Religions Annual Conference (held online, date and time TBD)

A Roundtable Discussion of: Anya Foxen’s Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga (Oxford University Press, 2020); Andrea Jain’s Peace, Love, Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality (Oxford University Press, 2020); and Amanda Lucia’s White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals (University of California Press, 2020)

Roundtable Participants:

Neil Dalal (University of Alberta); Dheepa Sundaram (University of Denver); Kathryn Lofton (Yale University); Hugh Urban (Ohio University); Paul Bramadat (University of Victoria); Anya Foxen (Cal Poly University); Andrea Jain (IUPUI); Amanda Lucia (University of California-Riverside)

Zoom room for AAR members TBA: