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The Body Canon as the Form of the Sacred in Modern Practice of Yoga

Student: Kovaleva Ekaterina

Supervisor: Dmitry Kurakin

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Complex Social Analysis (Master)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2016

The paper is devoted to the research of the body canon - representations of the body and bodily practices - in a modern yoga, which is regarded as a system of various physical, mental and spiritual practices. The practices and saturated discourses of body in yoga are analyzes in a new light, according to which in the theoretical perspective of the theory of cultural sociology and K. Schilling the experience of the sacred can be separated from religion and can be manifested in a variety of modalities in bodily experience. As a result of ethnography observation of yoga classes and interviews with teachers and participants in one Moscow yoga school the answer of how the sacred is stored in the ideas of the body in yoga and practices in terms of the dominant secular and rational discourse is received.

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