Andrea R Jain
Biographic Data
| ID | 1374879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea R Jain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea R |
| FAMILY NAME | Jain |
| SIGNATURE | JAIN A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Self-Management to Black Veganism
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The Study of Religion and Gender in the Time of Planetary Ecological Crisis and Pandemic
Peace Love Yoga
Yogi superman, master capitalist
This chapter serves as a response to critiques of being Spiritual but Not Religious (SBNR) as complicit with contemporary neoliberalism and market capitalism, and the reduction of consumer spiritualities to mere consumer sell-outs. It suggests such critiques fail to account for the ways being SBNR shares certain qualities with traditional religions, including ritual and mythological components. These critiques also depend on the assumption that t…
Selling Yoga
Premodern and early modern yoga comprise techniques with a wide range of aims, from turning inward in quest of the true self, to turning outward for divine union, to channeling bodily energy in pursuit of sexual pleasure. Early modern yoga also encompassed countercultural beliefs and practices. In contrast, today, modern yoga aims at the enhancement of the mind-body complex but does so according to contemporary dominant metaphysical, health, and …
Journeys to Foreign Selves
The Dual-Ideal of the Ascetic and Healthy Body
This article addresses institutional innovations in the Jain Śvetāmbara Terāpanth as it has adapted to a new socio-historical and cultural context. It investigates the intersections between the Terāpanth and the context of late-capitalism, particularly in India, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and discusses shifts in orientations toward the body as acts of adaptation to late capitalism. Historically, the Terāpanth held an ascetic ideal…
Branding yoga
In October 1989, long-time yoga student, John Friend (b. 1959) travelled to India to study with yoga masters. First, he went to Pune for a one-month intensive postural yoga programme at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute, founded by a world-famous yoga proponent, B. K. S. Iyengar (b. 1918). Postural yoga(De Michelis 2005, Singleton 2010) refers to modern biomechanical systems of yoga which are based on sequences of asana or postures tha…
Mystics, Gymnasts, Sexologists, and Other Yogis
Erotic Motherhood and the Ideal Son
Quietism and Karma
This essay is conceived as a contribution to the academic debate on the ethical status of mystical traditions with regard to Jain asceticism in particular and-through comparison of Jain with Advaita Vedanta asceticism-to ideologies of radical quietism more generally. For both Jain and Advaita Vedantic ascetic traditions, the material world, and particularly the body, are the primary obstacles to spiritual development. We deal with the social, phy…
Introduction
This essay introduces the second installment of a symposium in Common Knowledge called "Apology for Quietism." This introductory piece concerns the sociology of quietism and why, given the supposed quietude of quietists, there is such a thing at all. Dealing first with the "activist" Susan Sontag's attraction to the "quietist" Simone Weil, it then concentrates on the "activist" William Empson's attraction to the Buddha and to Buddhist quietism, w…
The Varieties of Religious Development in Adulthood
The authors used growth mixture models to study religious development during adulthood (ages 27-80) in a sample of individuals who were identified during childhood as intellectually gifted. The authors identified 3 discrete trajectories of religious development: (a) 40% of participants belonged to a trajectory class characterized by increases in religiousness until midlife and declines in later adulthood; (b) 41% of participants belonged to a tra…
The Varieties of Religious Development in Adulthood
The authors used growth mixture models to study religious development during adulthood (ages 27-80) in a sample of individuals who were identified during childhood as intellectually gifted. The authors identified 3 discrete trajectories of religious development: (a) 40% of participants belonged to a trajectory class characterized by increases in religiousness until midlife and declines in later adulthood; (b) 41% of participants belonged to a tra…
Branding yoga
In October 1989, long-time yoga student, John Friend (b. 1959) travelled to India to study with yoga masters. First, he went to Pune for a one-month intensive postural yoga programme at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute, founded by a world-famous yoga proponent, B. K. S. Iyengar (b. 1918). Postural yoga(De Michelis 2005, Singleton 2010) refers to modern biomechanical systems of yoga which are based on sequences of asana or postures tha…
Quietism and Karma
This essay is conceived as a contribution to the academic debate on the ethical status of mystical traditions with regard to Jain asceticism in particular and-through comparison of Jain with Advaita Vedanta asceticism-to ideologies of radical quietism more generally. For both Jain and Advaita Vedantic ascetic traditions, the material world, and particularly the body, are the primary obstacles to spiritual development. We deal with the social, phy…
Introduction
This essay introduces the second installment of a symposium in Common Knowledge called "Apology for Quietism." This introductory piece concerns the sociology of quietism and why, given the supposed quietude of quietists, there is such a thing at all. Dealing first with the "activist" Susan Sontag's attraction to the "quietist" Simone Weil, it then concentrates on the "activist" William Empson's attraction to the Buddha and to Buddhist quietism, w…
The Varieties of Religious Development in Adulthood
The authors used growth mixture models to study religious development during adulthood (ages 27-80) in a sample of individuals who were identified during childhood as intellectually gifted. The authors identified 3 discrete trajectories of religious development: (a) 40% of participants belonged to a trajectory class characterized by increases in religiousness until midlife and declines in later adulthood; (b) 41% of participants belonged to a tra…
Erotic Motherhood and the Ideal Son
Quietism and Karma
This essay is conceived as a contribution to the academic debate on the ethical status of mystical traditions with regard to Jain asceticism in particular and-through comparison of Jain with Advaita Vedanta asceticism-to ideologies of radical quietism more generally. For both Jain and Advaita Vedantic ascetic traditions, the material world, and particularly the body, are the primary obstacles to spiritual development. We deal with the social, phy…
Introduction
This essay introduces the second installment of a symposium in Common Knowledge called "Apology for Quietism." This introductory piece concerns the sociology of quietism and why, given the supposed quietude of quietists, there is such a thing at all. Dealing first with the "activist" Susan Sontag's attraction to the "quietist" Simone Weil, it then concentrates on the "activist" William Empson's attraction to the Buddha and to Buddhist quietism, w…
Mystics, Gymnasts, Sexologists, and Other Yogis
The Dual-Ideal of the Ascetic and Healthy Body
This article addresses institutional innovations in the Jain Śvetāmbara Terāpanth as it has adapted to a new socio-historical and cultural context. It investigates the intersections between the Terāpanth and the context of late-capitalism, particularly in India, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and discusses shifts in orientations toward the body as acts of adaptation to late capitalism. Historically, the Terāpanth held an ascetic ideal…
Branding yoga
In October 1989, long-time yoga student, John Friend (b. 1959) travelled to India to study with yoga masters. First, he went to Pune for a one-month intensive postural yoga programme at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute, founded by a world-famous yoga proponent, B. K. S. Iyengar (b. 1918). Postural yoga(De Michelis 2005, Singleton 2010) refers to modern biomechanical systems of yoga which are based on sequences of asana or postures tha…
Selling Yoga
Premodern and early modern yoga comprise techniques with a wide range of aims, from turning inward in quest of the true self, to turning outward for divine union, to channeling bodily energy in pursuit of sexual pleasure. Early modern yoga also encompassed countercultural beliefs and practices. In contrast, today, modern yoga aims at the enhancement of the mind-body complex but does so according to contemporary dominant metaphysical, health, and …
Journeys to Foreign Selves
Yogi superman, master capitalist
This chapter serves as a response to critiques of being Spiritual but Not Religious (SBNR) as complicit with contemporary neoliberalism and market capitalism, and the reduction of consumer spiritualities to mere consumer sell-outs. It suggests such critiques fail to account for the ways being SBNR shares certain qualities with traditional religions, including ritual and mythological components. These critiques also depend on the assumption that t…
Peace Love Yoga
The Study of Religion and Gender in the Time of Planetary Ecological Crisis and Pandemic
From Self-Management to Black Veganism
.
Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Theology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (3 works)