Constructions of Self and Other in Yoga, Travel, and Tourism : a Journey to Elsewhere.
Beaman, Lori G.; Sikka, Sonia.
2016
BL1-2790
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource Online Access
Concurrent users Unlimited
Authorized users Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Details

Title Constructions of Self and Other in Yoga, Travel, and Tourism : a Journey to Elsewhere.
Author Beaman, Lori G.
ISBN 9783319325125 (electronic book)
3319325124 (electronic book)
Imprint Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (124 pages)
Call Number BL1-2790
Dewey Decimal Classification 200
Summary This volume considers the phenomenon of yoga travel as an instance of a broader genre of 'spiritual travel' involving journeys to places 'elsewhere', which are imagined to offer the possibility of profound personal transformation. These imaginings are tied up in a continued exoticization of the East, but they are not limited to that. Contributors identify various themes such as authenticity, suffering, space, material markers, and the idea of the 'spiritual', tracing how these ideas manifest in conceptions and fetishizations of 'elsewhere.' To deepen its analysis of this phenomenon, the book incorporates a wide range of disciplines including architecture, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, women's studies, religious studies, and history. While the book's primary focus is yoga and yoga travel, contributors offer up an array of other case studies. Chapters delve into the complex questions of agency and authenticity that accompany the concept of 'spiritual travel' and ideas of 'elsewhere'. Lori G. Beaman is the Canada Research Chair in the Contextualization of Religion in a Diverse Canada and Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is also Principal Investigator of the Religion and Diversity Project, an international research team. Sonia Sikka is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her recent research involves comparative studies of religious identity and secularism in Canada, India, and the United States. Her publications include Living with Religious Diversity(2015) and Multiculturalism and Religious Identity (2014) (both edited with Lori G. Beaman), as well as Herder on Humanity and Cultural Difference (2011).
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Sikka, Sonia.
Available in Other Form Constructions of Self and Other in Yoga, Travel, and Tourism : A Journey to Elsewhere.
Linked Resources Online Access
Record Appears in Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
Notes on Contributors; List of Figure; Chapter 1: Introduction: A Journey to Elsewhere; Notes; Chapter 2: Journeys That Go Nowhere: Eurocentric Prejudice and the Refusal to Hear; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Journey Through the Third Space: Performing Aboriginal Identity Through Historic Re-Enactment Sites; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Transformative Encounters: Destabilising Human/Animal and Nature/Culture Binaries Through Cross-Cultural Engagement; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Eat, Pray, Love and Tourism Imaginaries; Note; References.

Chapter 6: Displacing the Domestic: The Elsewhere of TranscendenceIntroduction; The Domestic Implacement1; The Domestic Body; Travel and Travel to Elsewhere; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Urban Journey: A Woman's Guidebook to Self-Discovery in Berlin; Notes; References; Chapter 8: Religious Tourism Through a Gender Lens; The Methodist Men; Narratives of Spiritual Transformation; References; Chapter 9: Time, Space, and the Fantasised Other in Me; Spiritual Journey and the Hermeneutics of the Self; Resituating Spiritual Retreats in a Time/Space Matrix; References.

Chapter 10: A Ticket to Self-Discovery: Situating Yoga in Yoga TravelNotes; References; Chapter 11: Being on the Mat: Quasi-Sacred Spaces, 'Exotic' Other Places, and Yoga Studios in the 'West'; Introduction; Yoga?; Yoga Studios in the West; Quasi-Sacred Spaces and 'Exotic' Other Places; Studio 1; Studio 2; Rolling Up the Mat ... ; Note; References; Chapter 12: Namaste: The Perilous Journey of 'Real' Yoga; Conclusion; Notes; References; Case Law; Index.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export