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Book: Yoga Studies in Five Minutes

Chapter: 37. How do Academics Study Yoga?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.46379

Blurb:

Until the latter parts of the 20th century, much academic research on yoga was concentrated on historical methods. Arguably, as its global distribution and development proliferates, yoga today is a topic and phenomenon that can be approached through almost any academic lens, discipline or method that looks at human beliefs, practices, thought or culture in history or today.

Chapter Contributors

  • Karen O'Brien Kop (karen.OBrien-Kop@roehampton.ac.uk - kkop) 'King's College London'