Review: Black Women’s Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace, by Stephanie Y. Evans
In Black Women’s Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans mines the memoirs of Black women to write an interdisciplinary intellectual history. Her volume centers her subjects’ diverse range of religious and spiritual beliefs alongside their practice of yoga and meditation as the force behind their drive tow...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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University of Californiarnia Press
2023
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Nova religio
Year: 2023, Volume: 26, Issue: 4, Pages: 135-137 |
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| Summary: | In Black Women’s Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans mines the memoirs of Black women to write an interdisciplinary intellectual history. Her volume centers her subjects’ diverse range of religious and spiritual beliefs alongside their practice of yoga and meditation as the force behind their drive toward inner peace. The women’s peace energizes their public work which contributes to "epistemic healing…[through] effective public health policy, mental health services provided to Black communities, [and] activism" (17). Evans offers a culturally relevant methodology and analytical frame that demonstrates what Black women have long known about themselves: that when they tell their own stories, in whatever form, they write complex, layered material that sheds light about themselves and deepens what can be learned from examining the diverse ways that humans pursue surviving and thriving. |
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| ISSN: | 1541-8480 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nova religio
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/nr.2023.26.4.135 |