From yoga in the gym, to Buddhist chants in wellness retreats, we live in a time of mixed spirituality, where ritual and practice are globalized, traditions blend, and meaning is borrowed or simply stripped away. 

So, when is religious borrowing respectful, and when does it cause harm?

GUESTS:

• Elizabeth Bucar is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Northeastern University and author of Stealing My Religion 
• Shemeem Black, Researcher at the Australian National University and the Head of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies Program in the School of Culture History and Language, She is the author of The Flexible India: Yoga’s Cultural and Political Tensions

This episode of God Forbid was made on Gadigal land. 

Technical production by Craig Tilmouth and Tegan Nicholls.