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Christopher Jain Miller

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Yogananda's Sacred Music in Paradise

August 25, 2023 Christopher Jain Miller

Musical practice in the form of singing and chanting accompanied by instrumentation constitutes an important embodied practice in contemporary yoga culture. Engaging the field of Ethnomusicology and allied fields of inquiry, this chapter therefore brings Paramahansa Yogananda’s (1893–1952) music into focus by examining the function of his sacred devotional music ( kīrtan ) in a contemporary...