Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Lionel Obadia and Enzo Pace -- Copyright Page / Lionel Obadia and Enzo Pace -- Chapter 1 Italian Zen and the Ways of Globalization / Ugo Dessì -- Chapter 2 The Yoga Field / Matteo Di Placido -- Chapter 3 The Yoga Habitus in Contemporary Greek Society / Alexandros Sakellariou -- Chapter 4 Buddhist Ritual Practices as Religious Practices Adapted to the Middle Class / Zuzana Bártová -- Chapter 5 Spirituality / Sally SJ Brown -- Chapter 6 Yoga's Own "N-word" and Afrakan-Inspired Yogic Ethnostates / Patrick S.D. McCartney -- Chapter 7 Between Market and Domestication / Loïc Bawidamann and Rafael Walthert -- Chapter 8 Yoga and Mindfulness as a Fluctuating Field / Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger and Jørn Borup -- Chapter 9 Japanese New Religions during the Pandemic / João Paulo P. Silveira -- Chapter 10 Connect to Disconnect / Lionel Obadia -- Chapter 11 Daoism in the West / Marc Lebranchu.

This volume of the Annual Review for the Sociology of Religion adresses the challenges of the diversity and complexity of sociological approaches to Asian forms and dynamics of Asian or Asian-inpired ascetic ideas and practices. Eleven papers, written by scholars conducting researches in different geographic and cultural contexts, all contribute to enrich discussion on the relevance of sociological studies of Yoga, meditation and other ascetic techniques and traditions. Contributors are: Zuzana Bártová, Loïc Bawidamann, Jørn Borup, Sally SJ Brown, Ugo Dessì, Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger, Marc Lebranchu, Patrick S.D. McCartney, Lionel Obadia, Matteo Di Placido, Alexandros Sakellariou, João Paulo P. Silveira, and Rafael Walthert.

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