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Anya Foxen

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Anya Foxen is a historian and scholar of religion, and a yoga teacher.

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Early life and education

Anya Foxen was born in the Soviet Union. She spent her childhood in the New York area. She lives in Santa Barbara, California. She gained her PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [1]

Career

Foxen describes herself as "a historian and comparativist scholar of religion." [1] She is a research associate at Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions, and a religious studies professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. [1] She teaches courses on religions and Indian philosophy. Her professional interests include South Asian yoga and tantra, and modern postural yoga. [2]

Reception

Of Inhaling Spirit

Reviewing for Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, Nicholas Collins described the book as a valuable contribution, "establishing a Western lineage for the psycho-physical practices that have come to be colloquially called—perhaps inappropriately, Foxen contends—'yoga' in a large part of the world, but especially Europe and America". [3]

Magdalena Kraler and Kelly Mullan, reviewing the book for Correspondences, wrote that Foxen is seeking to reveal "Western traditions of spiritual breath-movement practices that preceded and coincided with the evolution of modern postural yoga". [4] They suggest that more research is needed on the question, writing that "In negotiating an essentialist view of yoga and Foxen's own construction of a universalist harmonial tradition, the book sometimes fails to purport a balanced argument." [4]

Herman Tull, in the Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, calls the book a "well-conceived study" that "correctly asserts" that a 'harmonialist' religion is "far more pervasive than classical religious studies would lead us to believe." [5] Tull writes that the book "adds immeasurably" to knowledge of the roots of modern yoga, and goes outside that scope to explore issues of Orientalism and new religious movements. [5]

Matteo Di Placido, in Religions, notes that Foxen's placing of yoga within a harmonial tradition is alongside other scholars' placing of it within physical cultures, Eastern forms of movement, the New Age, and Di Placido's own work on "contemporary spiritualities". [6]

Books

References

  1. 1 2 3 "About". Anya Foxen. Retrieved 20 March 2026.
  2. ↑ "Anya Foxen". Cal Poly Philosophy Department. Retrieved 20 March 2026.
  3. ↑ Collins, Nicholas E. (2021). "Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga by Anya P. Foxen". Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft. 16 (3): 435–438. doi:10.1353/mrw.2021.0055. ISSN   1940-5111.
  4. 1 2 Kraler, Magdalena; Mullan, Kelly (2021). "Book Review: Anya P. Foxen. Inhaling Spirit". Correspondences. 9 (1): 141–147.
  5. 1 2 Tull, Herman (30 January 2023). "Book Review: Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga. By Anya P. Foxen". Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies. 35 (1). doi:10.7825/2164-6279.1828. ISSN   2164-6279.
  6. ↑ Di Placido, Matteo (28 November 2023). "Spiritualities of the Body: Yoga, Spirituality and Health in Italy". Religions. 14 (12): 1478. doi: 10.3390/rel14121478 . ISSN   2077-1444.


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