... Hinduism yoga spirituality Carl Jung archetypes appropriation Appropriating Archetypes Carl Jung, Hindu Statuary, and Spiritual Seeking in California Drew Thomases ABSTRACT: Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Southern California, this paper explores how non-Indians use and appropriate statues...

...Peter Heehs The Sri Aurobindo Ashram was founded by Sri Aurobindo Ghose and Mirra Alfassa as a place for individuals to practice yoga in a community setting. Some observers regard the ashram as the center of a religious movement, but Aurobindo said that any attempt to base a movement on his...

...Ann Gleig Drawing on my own fieldwork experiences with the transnational Integral Yoga community, this essay offers some reflections on two possible approaches to bridging insider-outsider perspectives in the study of new religious movements. First, I consider Gerald Larson's suggestion...

... century, however, the Terāpanth prescribed a form of modern yoga for enhancing the body and life in the world. I argue that this shift signifies a practical change in the everyday body maintenance regime of the practitioner. It does not, however, signify a soteriological shift for the advanced spiritual...

... article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp . 2011 Hinduism Hindu new religious movements yoga communalism composite culture The Study of Hindu New Religious Movements Gene R. Thursby ABSTRACT...