20. Suzanne Newcombe + Karen O'Brien-Kop | Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies

In today's episode we talk with Dr. Suzanne Newcombe and Dr.
Karen O'Brien-Kop about their recent collaboration co-editing The
Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies (2021), and the
labor of love that went into creating this interdisciplinary
collaboration. We also discuss the history of yoga studies, the
difference between academic "field" and "discipline," how
academic work can overlap with the daily spiritual practice of
the scholar, and what makes Modern Yoga Studies a unique
field.

Speaker Bios

Suzanne Newcombe is a senior lecturer in Religious Studies at the
Open University, UK, and honorary director of Inform, based in
Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College, London. She has
published on topics relating to the popularisation of yoga and
ayurveda including the monograph Yoga in Britain: Stretching
Spirituality and Educating Yogis (2019). She researched the
transformation of yoga and ayurveda in modern India as part of
the ERC-funded AYURYOG project from 2015-2020.  


Karen O’Brien-Kop is a lecturer in Asian Religions and Ethics at
the University of Roehampton, UK, and was formerly a senior
teaching fellow at SOAS University of London. She received her
PhD from SOAS, titled Seed and Cloud of Liberation in Buddhist
and Pātañjala Yoga: An Intertextual Study and continues to
research classical Sanskrit texts on yoga and meditation. She has
published articles in Religions of South Asia and the Journal of
Indian Philosophy and is currently working on a monograph on
classical yoga and Buddhism.  



Links
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https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Yoga-and-Meditation-Studies/Newcombe-OBrien-Kop/p/book/9781138484863




Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies (2021)

https://open.academia.edu/SuzanneNewcombe 

https://roehampton-online.academia.edu/KarenOBrienKop

YS 109 | Classical Yoga and Buddhism