Constructions of Self and Other in Yoga, Travel, and Tourism A Journey to Elsewhere

Introduction: A Journey to Elsewhere; Lori G. Beaman and Sonia Sikka.- 1. Journeys That Go Nowhere: Eurocentric Prejudice and the Refusal to Hear; Sonia Sikka.- 2. Journey through the Third Space: Performing Aboriginal Identity through Historic Re-enactment Sites; Pamela Lee.- 3. Transformative Encounters: Destabilising Human/Animal and Nature/Culture Binaries through Cross-Cultural Engagement; Alexis Reichert.- 4. Eat, Pray, Love and Tourism Imaginaries; Ellen Badone.- 5. Displacing the Domestic: The Elsewhere of Transcendence; Meera Baindur.- 6. Urban Journey: A Woman’s Guidebook to Self-Discovery in Berlin; Despina Stratigakos.- 7. Religious Tourism through a Gender Lens; Mary Jo Neitz.- 8. Time, Space and the Fantasised Other in Me; Géraldine Mossière.- 9. A Ticket to Self-Discovery: Situating Yoga in Yoga Travel; Manvitha Singamsetty.- 10. A Ticket to Self-Discovery: Situating Yoga in Yoga Yoga Travel; Manvitha Singamsetty.- 11. Being on the Mat: Quasi-Sacred Spaces, ‘Exotic’ Other Places, and Yoga Studios in the ‘West’; Lisa Smith.- 12. Namaste: The Perilous Journey of ‘Real’ Yoga; Lori G. Beaman.  

Lori G. Beaman is the Canada Research Chair in the Contextualization of Religion in a Diverse Canada and Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is also Principal Investigator of the Religion and Diversity Project, an international research team. 

Sonia Sikka is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her recent research involves comparative studies of religious identity and secularism in Canada, India, and the United States. Her publications include Living with Religious Diversity (2015) and Multiculturalism and Religious Identity (2014) (both edited with Lori G. Beaman), as well as Herder on Humanity and Cultural Difference (2011).