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Yogafobi : en diskurskritisk analys av tidningarna Dagen och Världen idag av dess kritik mot yoga i Sverige utifrån historiebruk

Eriksson Leksell, Pehr (2025) RHBM78 20242
History of Religions and Religious Behavioural Science
Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
Abstract
This Master’s thesis is a study of the existence of yogaphobia in the swedish debate between the years 2012 and 2020 concerning the religious nature yoga. Via deconstructing misconceptions of yoga from a historical standpoint combined with the use of critical discourse analysis, the thesis explores the arguments found in news articles and submitters from the swedish newspapers Dagen and Världen idag to see if the source material’s discourse on yoga corresponds to yogaphobia. With the aid of history use the thesis underlines the issues a yogaphobic view brings to the debate, what implications yogaphobia has on the understanding of yoga and the practice’s place in swedish culture. The relevance of the study is thus to shift from a polarized... (More)
This Master’s thesis is a study of the existence of yogaphobia in the swedish debate between the years 2012 and 2020 concerning the religious nature yoga. Via deconstructing misconceptions of yoga from a historical standpoint combined with the use of critical discourse analysis, the thesis explores the arguments found in news articles and submitters from the swedish newspapers Dagen and Världen idag to see if the source material’s discourse on yoga corresponds to yogaphobia. With the aid of history use the thesis underlines the issues a yogaphobic view brings to the debate, what implications yogaphobia has on the understanding of yoga and the practice’s place in swedish culture. The relevance of the study is thus to shift from a polarized debate, driven by religious fundamentalism and orientalism, and to introduce a revisioned understanding of yoga based on current data in the field of yogic research to avoid what has been named ”The yoga culture wars” within a swedish context. (Less)
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author
Eriksson Leksell, Pehr
supervisor
organization
course
RHBM78 20242
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Yoga, modern yoga, modern postural yoga, hatha, hatha yoga, tantra, tanric yoga, kundalini, kundalini yoga, classical yoga, tapas, yogasutra, christan yoga, asana, pranayama, meditation, mindfulness, asceticism, yogaphobia, islamophobia, orientalism, fundamentalism, hinduism, hindu, hindu nationalism, neo hinduism, buddhism, new age, new spirituality, religious study, history of religions, discourse, critical discourse, history use, history writing, embodied practices, Lausanne movement, the Lausanne covenant, India, Sweden, Sverige, free church movement, catholicism, secularism, secularization, consumer culture, consumerism, health, health movement, physical culture, Svenska kyrkan, pingströrelsen, Arken, Livets ord, Dagen, Världen idag
language
Swedish
id
9214057
date added to LUP
2025-10-17 08:35:42
date last changed
2025-10-17 08:35:42
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  abstract     = {{This Master’s thesis is a study of the existence of yogaphobia in the swedish debate between the years 2012 and 2020 concerning the religious nature yoga. Via deconstructing misconceptions of yoga from a historical standpoint combined with the use of critical discourse analysis, the thesis explores the arguments found in news articles and submitters from the swedish newspapers Dagen and Världen idag to see if the source material’s discourse on yoga corresponds to yogaphobia. With the aid of history use the thesis underlines the issues a yogaphobic view brings to the debate, what implications yogaphobia has on the understanding of yoga and the practice’s place in swedish culture. The relevance of the study is thus to shift from a polarized debate, driven by religious fundamentalism and orientalism, and to introduce a revisioned understanding of yoga based on current data in the field of yogic research to avoid what has been named ”The yoga culture wars” within a swedish context.}},
  author       = {{Eriksson Leksell, Pehr}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Yogafobi : en diskurskritisk analys av tidningarna Dagen och Världen idag av dess kritik mot yoga i Sverige utifrån historiebruk}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}