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 Tables


Notes on Contributors


Sociological Approaches to Yoga and Asceticism An Introduction

  Lionel Obadia



1 Italian Zen and the Ways of Globalization

  Ugo Dessì



2 The Yoga Field A Bourdieusian Account of Yoga’s Contested Status, Malleable Character and Hybrid Nature

  Matteo Di Placido



3 The Yoga Habitus in Contemporary Greek Society Religious, Spiritual or Secular Practice?

  Alexandros Sakellariou



4 Buddhist Ritual Practices as Religious Practices Adapted to the Middle Class

  Zuzana Bártová



5 Spirituality A Significant Factor in Yoga Accessibility?

  Sally SJ Brown



6 Yoga’s Own “N-word” and Afrakan-Inspired Yogic Ethnostates Kemetic Yoga and “Not Fucking Around” with Colonizing Yogaland’s Newest Frontier

  Patrick S.D. McCartney



7 Between Market and Domestication The Quest for the Recognition of Yoga as Religion

  Loïc Bawidamann and Rafael Walthert



8 Yoga and Mindfulness as a Fluctuating Field

  Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger and Jørn Borup



9 Japanese New Religions during the Pandemic A Study on Seicho-no-Ie and Shinsokan Meditation in Brazil

  João Paulo P. Silveira



10 Connect to Disconnect The Ambivalent Impact of Smartphone Apps for the Practice of Yoga and Meditation

  Lionel Obadia



11 Daoism in the West From Orientalism to Western Neo-Daoism?

  Marc Lebranchu



Index