4. Philip Deslippe | Making Sense of Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga

In this episode, we speak with Philip Deslippe (UC Santa Barbara)
about his research on the modern history and construction of
Kundalini Yoga, the controversies surrounding the late guru Yogi
Bhajan, as well as the role and positionality of the scholar and
historian of yoga.

Speaker Bio
Philip Deslippe is a historian of American religion
with a background in American Studies and literature. He is
currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious
Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he
is writing a dissertation on the early history of yoga in the
United States from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century.
Philip has published articles on the history of modern yoga in
academic journals such as the Journal of Yoga Studies, Amerasia,
and Sikh Formations, and in popular venues including Yoga
Journal, Air and Space Smithsonian, and the Indian news site
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Links


YS 102 | Modern Yoga in the West

Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage (Dyson 2020)

"From Maharaj to Mahan Tantric: The Construction of Yogi
Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga" (Deslippe 2012)

www.philipdeslippe.com

https://ucsb.academia.edu/PhilipDeslippe