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Beyond "Religious Fundamentalism": Bridging Religious Tradition, Gender Normative Systems, and State Institutions to Respond to Intimate Partner Violence in Ethiopia (2024)
Journal Article
Istratii, R. (online). Beyond "Religious Fundamentalism": Bridging Religious Tradition, Gender Normative Systems, and State Institutions to Respond to Intimate Partner Violence in Ethiopia. American Behavioral Scientist, https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642241261036

Despite its western Christian origin, the notion of religious fundamentalism has been employed by western and non-western scholars alike to describe a variety of religious groups perceived to manifest antagonism to aspects of modernity and secularism... Read More about Beyond "Religious Fundamentalism": Bridging Religious Tradition, Gender Normative Systems, and State Institutions to Respond to Intimate Partner Violence in Ethiopia.

Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice (2024)
Book
Birch, J. (2024). Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice. École française d'Extrême-Orient

Writing in Varanasi in the sixteenth century, when the Mughal empire was at the height of its power, the monk Śivānandasarasvatī composed an extensive Sanskrit compendium on yoga entitled “The Wish-fulfilling Gem of Yoga” (Yogacintāmaṇi). Śivānanda w... Read More about Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice.

Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice (2024)
Book
Birch, J. (2024). Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice. École française d'Extrême-Orient

Writing in Varanasi in the sixteenth century, when the Mughal empire was at the height of its power, the monk Śivānandasarasvatī composed an extensive Sanskrit compendium on yoga entitled “The Wish-fulfilling Gem of Yoga” (Yogacintāmaṇi). Śivānanda w... Read More about Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice.

‘Yoga Helps!?’ Problems between Efficacy and Legitimization (2024)
Journal Article
Augspurger, J. U. (2024). ‘Yoga Helps!?’ Problems between Efficacy and Legitimization. Religions of South Asia, 18(1-2), 169-189. https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.25832

This paper explores the role of health discourse from yoga providers and biomedical research in popularising transglobal yoga and legitimizing claims about its health benefits. As contemporary yoga is more widely associated with physical and mental h... Read More about ‘Yoga Helps!?’ Problems between Efficacy and Legitimization.

‘Yoga Helps!?’ Problems between Efficacy and Legitimization (2024)
Journal Article
Augspurger, J. U. (2024). ‘Yoga Helps!?’ Problems between Efficacy and Legitimization. Religions of South Asia, 18(1-2), 169-189. https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.25832

This paper explores the role of health discourse from yoga providers and biomedical research in popularising transglobal yoga and legitimizing claims about its health benefits. As contemporary yoga is more widely associated with physical and mental h... Read More about ‘Yoga Helps!?’ Problems between Efficacy and Legitimization.

Righteousness is Good. A New Interpretation of the Seal from Yarim Tepe in the Daregaz Plain, Khorasan, Iran (2024)
Journal Article
Moradi, Y., & Hintze, A. (2024). Righteousness is Good. A New Interpretation of the Seal from Yarim Tepe in the Daregaz Plain, Khorasan, Iran. Iran and the Caucasus, 28(2), 125-139. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384X-02802002

This paper discusses a Sasanian sealstone discovered in 2014 at the archaeological site of Yarim Tepe in Khorasan, northeastern Iran. Although a surface find, the fact that this sealstone is provenanced is significant because this sets it apart from... Read More about Righteousness is Good. A New Interpretation of the Seal from Yarim Tepe in the Daregaz Plain, Khorasan, Iran.