Yoga, Religion and Spirituality in Cascadia.

Paul Bramadat is professor at the University of Victoria and director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society. His academic interests include religion and public discourse, public health, and public safety. His most recent edited books were Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest (UBC 2022), and Urban Religious Events: Public Spirituality in Contested Spaces (Bloomsbury 2022). His The Body Settles the Score: Yoga and the End of Innocence, a monograph on postural yoga in contemporary Canada and the United States, is undergoing peer review with McGill-Queens University Press.  In preparation for this book, he conducted interviews, focus groups, an international survey, site visits, and participant-observation fieldwork in yoga spaces across North America. He has also had a regular daily Ashtanga yoga practice for over a decade and has completed a yoga teacher training program.

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