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Federico Squarcini
Federico Squarcini
Yoga for Cats, Doga, Woga and others monsters in contemporary yoga practice
Date: Friday, March 4
Time: 4 - 6 PM
Place: Jackman Humanities Building (170 St George St), Room 318
Modern Yoga is a phenomenon of considerable dimensions. Daily, yoga practices attract thousand of new people and every day many millions perform one of its infinite variations. While all the different kinds of yoga are supposedly traced back to the ancient past, many are ‘true inventions’ of our days. In this presentation the economical logic of the continuous reconfiguration of yoga will be addressed and it will be related to role that contemporary Indology can play in dealing and interpreting this unique cultural phenomenon.
Federico Squarcini (PhD. in ‘Social and Historical Studies of Religions’ from the University of Bologna), currently researching on history and sociology of Southasian classical religious and legal traditions, is Assistant Professor of ‘History of Indian Religions’ at the University of Florence. He is also Lecturer in Sociology of Cultural Processes in South Asia at the Post-graduate Master Program ‘Immigrati e Rifugiati’, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, and Lecturer in Indology at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’. He is author and editor of different volumes, like Tradition, Veda and Law (Manohar 2008), Yoga. Fra storia, salute e mercato (Carocci 2008), Ex Oriente Lux, Luxus, Luxuria. Storia e sociologia delle tradizioni religiose sudasiatiche in Occidente (SEF 2006) and Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions (Firenze University Press 2005).
Modern Yoga is a phenomenon of considerable dimensions. Daily, yoga practices attract thousand of new people and every day many millions perform one of its infinite variations. While all the different kinds of yoga are supposedly traced back to the ancient past, many are ‘true inventions’ of our days. In this presentation the economical logic of the continuous reconfiguration of yoga will be addressed and it will be related to role that contemporary Indology can play in dealing and interpreting this unique cultural phenomenon.
Federico Squarcini (PhD. in ‘Social and Historical Studies of Religions’ from the University of Bologna), currently researching on history and sociology of Southasian classical religious and legal traditions, is Assistant Professor of ‘History of Indian Religions’ at the University of Florence. He is also Lecturer in Sociology of Cultural Processes in South Asia at the Post-graduate Master Program ‘Immigrati e Rifugiati’, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, and Lecturer in Indology at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’. He is author and editor of different volumes, like Tradition, Veda and Law (Manohar 2008), Yoga. Fra storia, salute e mercato (Carocci 2008), Ex Oriente Lux, Luxus, Luxuria. Storia e sociologia delle tradizioni religiose sudasiatiche in Occidente (SEF 2006) and Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions (Firenze University Press 2005).
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