Intersections between eastern methods and catholicism: the ethnographic case of christian yoga

This article aims to observe the intersections and compatibility with Catholicism and what the Vatican called in 1989 “eastern methods”, psychosomatic techniques “inspired by Hindu and Buddhism”, such as “the Zen Transcendental Meditation, or Yoga”, considering two empirical cases investigated ethno...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Dantas, Renan
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2022
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repository:Ciencias Sociales y Religión (Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8670907
Online Access:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/csr/article/view/8670907
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Yoga cristã
Meditação cristã
Catolicismo
Oriental
Yoga cristiano
Meditación cristiana
Christian Yoga
Catholicism
Eastern
Christian meditation
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Summary:This article aims to observe the intersections and compatibility with Catholicism and what the Vatican called in 1989 “eastern methods”, psychosomatic techniques “inspired by Hindu and Buddhism”, such as “the Zen Transcendental Meditation, or Yoga”, considering two empirical cases investigated ethnographically in Brazil: the modality of Christian Yoga created by the Jesuit priest Haroldo J. Rahm and the Christian Meditation created by the Canadian Benedictine John Main. In view of this, a question that is imposed is to understand how such compatibilizations are made. Making the treatment of traditions of such methods, they can plan the execution of cases between the two cases and Catholicism.