Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 1459162
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1163/18748929-01203007
- Publisher
- Equinox
- ISBN
- 9781781796610
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book investigates the popularisation of yoga in the UK during the twentieth century. It is based on sustained research conducted over five years involving thematic analysis of the intertwining of such popularisation with twentieth-century transformations in adult education, media, gender norms, and complementary and alternative medicine during the period of yoga’s widespread adoption by the British public. The social historical analysis involved weaving together the oral evidence of over 35 significant historical actors and their private historical records with material in multiple locations including archives of city council education committees, newspapers, publishers, the BBC, BL and Wellcome Institute.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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