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Title |
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13. Aligning the Good and the Beautiful: Yogic Aesthetics in a Globalized World - Embodied Reception |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Amanda Lucia; United States |
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Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies |
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Keyword(s) |
Yoga; ethics; aesthetics; body; dharma; South Asian religions |
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Subject classification |
South Asian Religions; Ethnography |
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Description |
Abstract |
This paper argues that modern postural yoga—and the spiritual wellness industry more broadly—often exhibits an ideal formulation of the body wherein beauty and morality are co-constituted, each providing an index of the other. Beautiful people, that is to say, people who are deemed beautiful, are celebrated for their presumed moral elevation and spiritual advancement. The demand to present as perfected-wellness-embodied has significant ramifications for wellness influencers (including yogis), not the least of which are financial. This paper argues that there are South Asian antecedents to this type of indexing of beauty and morality in South Asian religious forms, and provides evidence by looking to the bodily descriptions of religious virtuosi in religious and yogic texts, and in the presumptions of Ayurvedic remedies. However, it also shows how the contemporary global yoga industry, in collusion with the beauty industry, has exponentially expanded this latent confluence and now creates moral hierarchies that are based largely in unequal access to economic and social capital. |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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01-Sep-2024 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/44432 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.44432 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Embodied Reception |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |