Spiritual bypass and entanglement in Yogaland

Patrick McCartney
3 min readMar 21, 2019

How Neoliberalism, soft Hindutva and banal nationalism facilitate yoga fundamentalism

My latest article is about how knowledge can become disembedded and decontextualised, and how this can lead people to lend unwitting support to distant ideologies and social worlds through sharing in the same/similar aspirations, identities, textual sources of authority and legitimacy and practices. It is a call to question the entangled nature of one’s consumption of yoga-inspired lifestyles.

If you would like to read it, you can, HERE.

It has, so far, received an interesting blend of opinions.

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