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as a "detailed and well-researched analysis of the most significant forms of yoga that developed in Britain during the twentieth century... (providing) scholars and yoga practitioners with an original, detailed, and yet easy-to-read history of the development of yoga theory and praxis as it
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Everyone could be vulnerable if the right message comes at the right, or the very wrong time, in their lives. No one ever joins a cult; no one ever says "oh I'm going to go and give up my critical thinking and sell my soul to someone who's obviously trying to manipulate
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Crace, Benjamin D. (2014). "Prophecy in the New Millennium: When Prophecies Persist Prophecy in the New Millennium: When Prophecies Persist . Edited by Sarah Harvey and Suzanne Newcombe . Ashgate Publishing Limited , 2013 . 295 pages. $ 124.95 cloth; $ 40.46 paper".
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funded AYURYOG: Entangled Histories of Yoga, Ayurveda and Alchemy in South Asia project which ran from 2015-2020. Newcombe has appeared on BBC radio and television to discuss modern yoga and religious practices.
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and new and minority religions. She states that she is particularly interested in "the interfaces between religion, health and healing." She is known in particular for her work on
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Palmer, Susan J. (2014). "Sarah Harvey and Suzanne Newcombe (eds): Prophecy in the New Millennium: When Prophecies Persist".
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Cult and spoke that everyone is potentially susceptible to joining a cult stating that "No one ever joins a
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in London. She took a master's degree in Religion in Contemporary Society at the
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of modern and contemporary religion, publishing particularly in the areas of
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Newcombe is a senior lecturer at the Open University, working on the
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Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
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Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
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The Cult Next Door: The Mystery and Madness of Heaven's Gate
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Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis
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Prophecy in the New Millennium: When Prophecies Persist
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Index

yoga
yoga for women
yoga in Britain
Kansas
Amherst College
SOAS
London School of Economics
University of Cambridge
yoga
ayurvedic medicine
sociology
social history
modern yoga
Ayurveda
European Research Council
INFORM
King's College London
ABC News
20/20
Heaven's Gate
Cult
Nova Religio
Nova Religio
ISBN
978-1409449959
The Revival of Yoga in Contemporary India
Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis
ISBN
978-1781796610
Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies

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