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The Assimilation of Yogic Religions through Pop Culture (Hardcover)
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The Assimilation of Yogic Religions through Pop Culture (Hardcover)
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The image of the meditating yogi has become a near-universal symbol
for transcendent perfection used to market everything from perfume
and jewelry to luxury resorts and sports cars, and popular culture
has readily absorbed it along similar lines. Yet the religious
traditions grounding such images are often readily abandoned or
caricatured beyond recognition, or so it would seem. The essays
contained in The Assimilation of Yogic Religions through Pop
Culture explore the references to yogis and their native cultures
of India, Tibet, and China as they are found in the stories of many
famous icons of popular culture, from Batman, Spider-Man, and
Doctor Strange to Star Trek, Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, and others. In
doing so, the authors challenge the reader to look deeper into the
seemingly superficial appropriation of the image of the yogi and
Asian religious themes found in all manner of comic books, novels,
television, movies, and theater and to carefully examine how they
are being represented and what exactly is being said.
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