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Candy Gunther Brown

Dr. Candy Gunther Brown (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University and author or editor of six books, including Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming A neutral term used to describe someone or something, such as in law, as non-religious in character. Learn more Education or Reestablishing Religion? (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

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Religion Dispatches
Alabama’s latest round debating yoga should come as no surprise. Earlier this week, the state’s Senate Judiciary Committee vote on whether to overturn a ban on yoga in public schools ended in a tie…
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Religion Dispatches
Alabama is the latest state to reconsider its stance on yoga, as reported by The New York Times earlier this week (an article for which I was interviewed). The 1993 Alabama State Department of…
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Religion Dispatches
Advocates of school yoga and mindfulness are no doubt sincere when they speak of these practices as secular resources that are desperately needed by a troubled education system, but there are compelling reasons to be skeptical.
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