Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 14 (2023)

Lionel Obadia, PhD, (1999), Université de Lyon, France, is Professor of Anthropology. He is the author of 10 books and editor of 20 books, and has authored 180 chapters and journal articles on religion, Buddhism, magic, witchcraft and globalization.Enzo Pace is a Professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Padua. He has authored 42 books and several articles on the sociology of Islam, fundamentalism, religious pluralism, and digital religion.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsSociological Approaches to Yoga and Asceticism An IntroductionLionel Obadia1 Italian Zen and the Ways of GlobalizationUgo Dessì2 The Yoga Field A Bourdieusian Account of Yoga’s Contested Status, Malleable Character and Hybrid NatureMatteo Di Placido3 The Yoga Habitus in Contemporary Greek Society Religious, Spiritual or Secular Practice?Alexandros Sakellariou4 Buddhist Ritual Practices as Religious Practices Adapted to the Middle ClassZuzana Bártová5 Spirituality A Significant Factor in Yoga Accessibility?Sally SJ Brown6 Yoga’s Own “N-word” and Afrakan-Inspired Yogic Ethnostates Kemetic Yoga and “Not Fucking Around” with Colonizing Yogaland’s Newest FrontierPatrick S.D. McCartney7 Between Market and Domestication The Quest for the Recognition of Yoga as ReligionLoïc Bawidamann and Rafael Walthert8 Yoga and Mindfulness as a Fluctuating FieldMarianne Qvortrup Fibiger and Jørn Borup9 Japanese New Religions during the Pandemic A Study on Seicho-no-Ie and Shinsokan Meditation in BrazilJoão Paulo P. Silveira10 Connect to Disconnect The Ambivalent Impact of Smartphone Apps for the Practice of Yoga and MeditationLionel Obadia11 Daoism in the West From Orientalism to Western Neo-Daoism?Marc LebranchuIndex