Yoga keeps the score
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- Date
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7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
- Venue
- SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies
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- Online
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- Webinar
About this event
The SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies is delighted host Professor Paul Bramadat to discuss the topic, 'yoga keeps the score', and his most recent publication, Yogalands.
What does critical ethnography teach us about why postural yoga seems both ubiquitous and sometimes reviled in western societies? This question haunts scholars and serious practitioners of yoga.
Bramadat uses his book, Yogalands: In Search of Practice on the Mat and in the World (McGill-Queens UP 2025), an international project that examined the place of yoga in North America, to provide some answers, and perhaps to ask better questions of yoga practitioners and scholars, and the larger societies in which we all live.
Speaker
Paul Bramadat is Professor in the History Department and Religion, Culture, and Society Program, and Director Emeritus of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. His most recent book is Yogalands (McGill-Queens UP 2025). Before that he edited Religion at the Edge: Nature, Secularity, and Spirituality in the Pacific Northwest (UBC Press, 2022). His research and teaching relate to situations in which religion and religion-like phenomena become central concerns in public discourse. As such, he has written about the ways religion and spirituality are framed in debates related to securitisation, secularisation, health and wellness, and new ways of imagining urban life.
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