Embodied Reception

HenrietteHankyis University Lecturer in the Study of Religions at the University ofStavanger and a doctoral candidate at the University of Bergen. KnutA. Jacobsenis Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen. IstvánKeulis Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen.

• Editors’PrefaceHenrietteHanky, Knut A. Jacobsen and István Keul ITHEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS 1.Introduction Embodied Reception: South Asian Spiritualities inContemporary Contexts HenrietteHanky 2.Training—Sensing—Predicting: Towards a Theory of the Reception ofPractices as Embodied AnneKoch, University of Freiburg 3.The Search for Rigour in Ethnographies of Bodily Practice TheoWildcroft, The Open University IIPERFORMING TEXTUAL TRADITIONS 4.Transpersonal Therapy and a Tantric Temple: The Parātrīśikā inWestern Practice IstvánKeul 5.Practicing the Yogasūtra? An Approach to the Analysis ofContemporary Yoga Philosophy’s Somatic Aspects Lauravon Ostrowski, University of Hamburg 6.Lay Sāṃkhyayoga Practices in Contemporary India KnutA. Jacobsen IIIBODILY PRACTICES ON THE MOVE 7.Embodied Receptions and the Creation of B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light onPrāṇāyāma SuzanneNewcombe, The Open University and Inform, King's College London 8.Between Patañjali and Psychology: Acem’s ‘Classical, MeditativeYoga’ MargretheLøøv, NLAUniversity College, Oslo9.Kaḷarippayaṟṟ˘ in Performance: Adoptions and Adaptations of aSouth Indian Martial Art LucyMay Constantini, The Open University IVEMBODIED MEANING-MAKING 10.Osho in a Nutshell? Dynamic Meditation and the Relationship BetweenBodily Performance and Meaning-Making HenrietteHanky 11.“Being here fully”: Autoethnographic Approaches toMindfulness-Based Stress Reduction as an Embodied Group Interactionof an Authentic Self AlanSchink, UlmUniversity12.Moving Beyond the Mind Through “Listening by Heart”: The Role ofExperience in Modern Advaitic Satsangs ElinThorsén, University of Gothenburg 13.Aligning the Good and the Beautiful: Yogic Aesthetics in a GlobalizedWorld AmandaLucia, University of California, Riverside