Note on Transliteration Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Premodern Yoga Systems Chapter Two: ... more Note on Transliteration Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Premodern Yoga Systems Chapter Two: From Counterculture to Counterculture Chapter Three: Continuity with Consumer Culture Chapter Four: Branding Yoga Chapter Five: Postural Yoga as a Body of Religious Practice Chapter Six: Yogaphobia and Hindu Origins Conclusion Bibliography
Each year, the MIT Technology Review publishes a list of outstanding innovators under 35. They co... more Each year, the MIT Technology Review publishes a list of outstanding innovators under 35. They come from fields as diverse as biotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, energy, the web, transportation, communications, materials and computer hardware. Their innovations are recognized as having the potential to provide solutions with global ramifications and make a big difference in the way people live, work, heal and think.
Jeffrey Kripal, a scholar of comparative religions at Rice University is a rare breed; a maverick... more Jeffrey Kripal, a scholar of comparative religions at Rice University is a rare breed; a maverick and outlier in the western academy, known for bringing together subjects as varied as psychoanalysis and Hindu Tantra, the history of American metaphysical religion, psychedelic plants and, most recently, UFO's, the paranormal, popular culture, and the study of emergent mythologies. A prolific author, Jeffrey has published widely acclaimed books such Kripal studies what he calls "extreme religious experiences", the profound mystical states that catalyzed the formation of world's major religions. His first book 'Kali's Child', on the life of Indian saint Ramakrishna, won him an award at the American Academy of Religion, while simultaneously attracting controversy in India, where Hindu nationalists tried to ban it. In this wide-ranging interview, he discusses the highlights of his literary accomplishments, the life changing experience that shaped his career, how sexuality and spirituality are intricately linked in all the world's religious traditions, how pop culture and science fiction mythologies derive from our untapped spiritual potential, and the perils of dogmatic materialism within the academy.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is a historian specializing in the early modern period who currently holds th... more Sanjay Subrahmanyam is a historian specializing in the early modern period who currently holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at UCLA. In February 2019 he was awarded the Dan David Prize for History (jointly with Kenneth Pomeranz). He is the author of several books and publications including The Career and Legend of Vasco De Gama, Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges, Three Ways to be Alien: Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World, Writing the Mughal World (with Muzaffar Alam) and Is 'Indian Civilization' a Myth?
A wide ranging interview with Sanjay Subrahmanyam about the problems of Indian historiography, his connected histories approach to pre-colonial South Asia that challenges certain trends in post-colonial studies (such as the Subaltern school), and how 'modernity' was a global phenomenon, not something produced in Europe and then exported to the rest of the world.
An edited version appeared in The Hindu Sunday Magazine.
Samantha Power is an Irish-American academic, author, and diplomat who served as the 28th United ... more Samantha Power is an Irish-American academic, author, and diplomat who served as the 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017, the youngest American to assume the role. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for her book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, questioning America’s repeated reluctance to confront genocide during the 20th century: "Why does the United States stand so idly by" in the face of mass atrocities? The answer, she wrote, is "simply put, American leaders did not act because they did not want to."
Ambassador Power believes that “in the face of genocide and mass atrocities, the United States government should quickly elevate the crisis, engage US allies, and determine which bilateral and multilateral levers might be useful in mitigating mass violence.”
During her stint as U.N. ambassador, she focused on such issues as LGBT rights and women’s rights, religious freedom and religious minorities, refugees, human trafficking and human rights, including in the Middle East and North Africa Sudan, and Myanmar.
Her 2019 political memoir The Education of an Idealist, traces her journey from her beginnings as an Irish immigrant to the US through to her work as a war correspondent in the Balkans and her ascent to inner halls of power.
Note on Transliteration Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Premodern Yoga Systems Chapter Two: ... more Note on Transliteration Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Premodern Yoga Systems Chapter Two: From Counterculture to Counterculture Chapter Three: Continuity with Consumer Culture Chapter Four: Branding Yoga Chapter Five: Postural Yoga as a Body of Religious Practice Chapter Six: Yogaphobia and Hindu Origins Conclusion Bibliography
Each year, the MIT Technology Review publishes a list of outstanding innovators under 35. They co... more Each year, the MIT Technology Review publishes a list of outstanding innovators under 35. They come from fields as diverse as biotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, energy, the web, transportation, communications, materials and computer hardware. Their innovations are recognized as having the potential to provide solutions with global ramifications and make a big difference in the way people live, work, heal and think.
Jeffrey Kripal, a scholar of comparative religions at Rice University is a rare breed; a maverick... more Jeffrey Kripal, a scholar of comparative religions at Rice University is a rare breed; a maverick and outlier in the western academy, known for bringing together subjects as varied as psychoanalysis and Hindu Tantra, the history of American metaphysical religion, psychedelic plants and, most recently, UFO's, the paranormal, popular culture, and the study of emergent mythologies. A prolific author, Jeffrey has published widely acclaimed books such Kripal studies what he calls "extreme religious experiences", the profound mystical states that catalyzed the formation of world's major religions. His first book 'Kali's Child', on the life of Indian saint Ramakrishna, won him an award at the American Academy of Religion, while simultaneously attracting controversy in India, where Hindu nationalists tried to ban it. In this wide-ranging interview, he discusses the highlights of his literary accomplishments, the life changing experience that shaped his career, how sexuality and spirituality are intricately linked in all the world's religious traditions, how pop culture and science fiction mythologies derive from our untapped spiritual potential, and the perils of dogmatic materialism within the academy.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is a historian specializing in the early modern period who currently holds th... more Sanjay Subrahmanyam is a historian specializing in the early modern period who currently holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at UCLA. In February 2019 he was awarded the Dan David Prize for History (jointly with Kenneth Pomeranz). He is the author of several books and publications including The Career and Legend of Vasco De Gama, Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges, Three Ways to be Alien: Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World, Writing the Mughal World (with Muzaffar Alam) and Is 'Indian Civilization' a Myth?
A wide ranging interview with Sanjay Subrahmanyam about the problems of Indian historiography, his connected histories approach to pre-colonial South Asia that challenges certain trends in post-colonial studies (such as the Subaltern school), and how 'modernity' was a global phenomenon, not something produced in Europe and then exported to the rest of the world.
An edited version appeared in The Hindu Sunday Magazine.
Samantha Power is an Irish-American academic, author, and diplomat who served as the 28th United ... more Samantha Power is an Irish-American academic, author, and diplomat who served as the 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017, the youngest American to assume the role. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for her book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, questioning America’s repeated reluctance to confront genocide during the 20th century: "Why does the United States stand so idly by" in the face of mass atrocities? The answer, she wrote, is "simply put, American leaders did not act because they did not want to."
Ambassador Power believes that “in the face of genocide and mass atrocities, the United States government should quickly elevate the crisis, engage US allies, and determine which bilateral and multilateral levers might be useful in mitigating mass violence.”
During her stint as U.N. ambassador, she focused on such issues as LGBT rights and women’s rights, religious freedom and religious minorities, refugees, human trafficking and human rights, including in the Middle East and North Africa Sudan, and Myanmar.
Her 2019 political memoir The Education of an Idealist, traces her journey from her beginnings as an Irish immigrant to the US through to her work as a war correspondent in the Balkans and her ascent to inner halls of power.
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An edited version appeared in The Hindu
A wide ranging interview with Sanjay Subrahmanyam about the problems of Indian historiography, his connected histories approach to pre-colonial South Asia that challenges certain trends in post-colonial studies (such as the Subaltern school), and how 'modernity' was a global phenomenon, not something produced in Europe and then exported to the rest of the world.
An edited version appeared in The Hindu Sunday Magazine.
Ambassador Power believes that “in the face of genocide and mass atrocities, the United States government should quickly elevate the crisis, engage US allies, and determine which bilateral and multilateral levers might be useful in mitigating mass violence.”
During her stint as U.N. ambassador, she focused on such issues as LGBT rights and women’s rights, religious freedom and religious minorities, refugees, human trafficking and human rights, including in the Middle East and North Africa Sudan, and Myanmar.
Her 2019 political memoir The Education of an Idealist, traces her journey from her beginnings as an Irish immigrant to the US through to her work as a war correspondent in the Balkans and her ascent to inner halls of power.
An edited version appeared in The Hindu
A wide ranging interview with Sanjay Subrahmanyam about the problems of Indian historiography, his connected histories approach to pre-colonial South Asia that challenges certain trends in post-colonial studies (such as the Subaltern school), and how 'modernity' was a global phenomenon, not something produced in Europe and then exported to the rest of the world.
An edited version appeared in The Hindu Sunday Magazine.
Ambassador Power believes that “in the face of genocide and mass atrocities, the United States government should quickly elevate the crisis, engage US allies, and determine which bilateral and multilateral levers might be useful in mitigating mass violence.”
During her stint as U.N. ambassador, she focused on such issues as LGBT rights and women’s rights, religious freedom and religious minorities, refugees, human trafficking and human rights, including in the Middle East and North Africa Sudan, and Myanmar.
Her 2019 political memoir The Education of an Idealist, traces her journey from her beginnings as an Irish immigrant to the US through to her work as a war correspondent in the Balkans and her ascent to inner halls of power.