Pedagogies of Salvation: The Micro- and Macro-politics of Yoga in Euro-American Societies

Pedagogies of Salvation asks questions that yoga studies and the emergent social sciences of yoga rarely confront: what actually happens in yoga studios? How do people practice, and how does yoga shape the wider lives of teachers and practitioners? What forms of embodied selfhood emerge through these routines? The book takes you inside classes, trainings, and everyday practice to show how yoga becomes a pedagogy of attention, discipline, and care. Drawing on close ethnographic access, disco...