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Committee Members, 2017 Brochure, North End Super Reunion
No full text2017 Brochure, Committee Members, North End Super Reunion, Portsmouth, OH 45662https://digitalcommons.shawnee.edu/nesimages/1003/thumbnail.jp
North End Community Church Service
No full textAn audio recording of the North End Community Church Service, which brought together eight pastors and congregations from across the neighborhood. The North End Super Reunion concluded with the Community Church Service
Gary Michael Hairston, Sr.
No full textGary Michael Hairston, Sr. oral history recorded during the North End Super Reunion, June 29, 2017.https://digitalcommons.shawnee.edu/nesoralhistories/1000/thumbnail.jp
Kevin and Barbara Bradbury Farm (4 of 4)
No full textKevin and Barb Bradbury oral history recorded on February 16, 2017 on their farm in Scioto County, Ohio.
Four of a four part interview.https://digitalcommons.shawnee.edu/ms-oral-histories/1004/thumbnail.jp
Wilson Roderick (1 of 3)
No full textWilson Roderick oral history recorded during the North End Super Reunion, June 29, 2017.
Part one of three.https://digitalcommons.shawnee.edu/nesoralhistories/1001/thumbnail.jp
Saraswati Puja: An Ethnographic Account of a Bengali Religious Festival in the United States
Get PDFIn this article, I use ethnographic method to study a Bengali religious festival, Saraswati Puja, as celebrated in the United States. I contend that Bengali Indian Americans chose to celebrate this festival because of its symbolic significance; goddess Saraswati is the goddess of knowledge and wisdom. I analyze how this religious celebration satisfies Bengali Indian Americans’ nostalgic yearnings while becoming a means to transfer their culture and tradition to second generation Indian Americans. I look at how different activities within the religious frame blur the boundaries between the religious and the secular. I also examine how this one-day event reflects their strong desire to maintain their tradition while simultaneously challenging it
Yoga heritage in Brazil: History and culture in the Development of a Brazilian Yoga
Get PDFThis article contains a brief analysis of the trajectory of Yoga within the Brazilian cultural universe – a context in which the ancient practice developed in India starts to create new identities. Yoga tradition has acquired its own features in Brazil due to peculiarities of our cultural heritage. Although many Brazilian teachers insist on the need to value certain practices because of their purity”, originality and fidelity to Indian tradition , we consider the reverse process to be more important from a historical point of view: the constitution of a Brazilian Yoga which is the result of a particular interpretation of Indian Yoga tradition in Brazil based on our historical specificities. It is precisely the sum of these specificities – which, since the beginning of our colonization, acted in the shaping our bodies, our beliefs and the way we relate to the world – that will be analyzed in our article. Our central argument will be that through the lenses of some constitutive elements of Brazilian identity, Yoga has been, since the mid-twentieth century, “reinvented” by Brazilian culture. We consider Brazilian Yoga to be a rich product of our socio-cultural context, being also a contribution to the story of an ancient Indian tradition that is still alive and which is continuously reinvented by many cultures around the globe. Throughout the text, we will approach some questions related to this topic: is it possible to identify, in Brazil, a relationship with spirituality and the body that could be considered distinct from the one developed in the United States, territory where Yoga first landed in the West? Which elements of our nationality would actually be relevant to understand whether corporeality is linked to a Brazilian spirituality? How do these elements relate to the construction process of Brazilian Yoga? In order to provide input for these considerations, we will start with a discussion of the arrival of Yoga in the West, and then proceed to observe how this process occurred in Brazil
