Seeker, Surfer, Yogi
The Progressive Religious Imagination and the Cultural Politics of Place in Encinitas, California
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3014855 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eileen Luhr (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1169-1193 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/aq.2015.0072 |
| OpenAlex | W2202438910 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
This essay examines Encinitas, California, as a case study for understanding how a cultural pluralism based in religious experimentation has come to define the area's overall civic imagination. Over the years, as yoga enthusiasts and surfers flocked to the area, their lifestyle practices acquired the sanctity of religious belief. The essay uses three controversies-discussions over a competition at a popular surf spot, a debate over the meaning and legality of a public artwork, and a controversy over a public school district yoga curriculum-to show how the city's expansive religious imaginary shaped debates about access to public space. Taken together, these incidents convey how a cosmopolitan religious imagination harnessed alternative beliefs and practices to a California dream that was increasingly characterized by an exclusionary neoliberal economy of privileged bourgeois consumption and culturally appropriative branding
Aesthetics · Art · Dream · Epistemology · Media studies · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Principle of legality · Religious pluralism · Sociology · The Imaginary · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Tourism and Spaces
A religious history of the American people
Christian America?
Habits of the heart
California Vieja
Dark Green Religion
New Age Capitalism
Doing the Town
Pluralism as a Culture
Religion as Trust in Authority
Don't Blame Us
"Toward a Geography of "Religion
Spirituality
The State of Stretching
Southern California Country, an Island on the Land
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |