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...

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Auteur principal: Lefurgey, Mayme (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Equinox 2017
Dans: Religions of South Asia
Année: 2017, Volume: 11, Numéro: 2/3, Pages: 254-273
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Patañjali, Philosophe, Yogasūtra / Yoga / Modernité / Effort de paix
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
BK Hindouisme
NCD Éthique et politique
Sujets non-standardisés:B Yogaśāstra
B elicitive peacebuilding
B Peacebuilding
B modern postural yoga
B transrational peace studies
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:1751-2697
Contient:Enthalten in: Religions of South Asia
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/rosa.37026