The Ethics of Yoga and the Spirit of Godmen

IF 1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Analysis Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.3167/sa.2022.660403

Joseph S. Alter

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Abstract

Drawing on Weber's classic study of religion, salvation, and the motivation to be a successful capitalist, this article problematizes the relationship among competition and the embodiment of success in the practice of yoga in modern India. Contemporary postural yoga has been popularized in ways that fetishize the body and the relation between the body and enlightenment. It has become a sign of self-realization in a mode that reflects the possibility of transcendence. So-called godmen in India, who embody this possibility, popularize yoga in different ways. Contrasting Swami Sivananda's brand of twentieth-century yoga in the context of Nehruvian modernity with Baba Ramdev's yoga as an expression of free market religious nationalism, this article examines the work that embodied competition does in different ideological contexts.

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瑜伽伦理与神人精神

借鉴韦伯对宗教、救赎和成为成功资本家的动机的经典研究，本文对现代印度瑜伽练习中竞争与成功体现之间的关系提出了质疑。当代姿势瑜伽以崇拜身体和身体与启蒙之间的关系的方式得到普及。它已经成为一种自我实现的标志，以一种反映超越可能性的模式。在印度，所谓的神人体现了这种可能性，他们以不同的方式推广瑜伽。对比斯瓦米·西瓦南达(Swami Sivananda)在尼赫鲁现代性背景下的20世纪瑜伽品牌与巴巴·拉姆德夫(Baba Ramdev)的瑜伽作为自由市场宗教民族主义的表达，本文考察了在不同意识形态背景下体现竞争的工作。

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Social Analysis ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis. The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes. The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond. Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.