{"id":4755,"date":"2017-06-22T23:25:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T23:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2017-11-17T18:15:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T18:15:45","slug":"yoga-court-cases-us-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/yoga-court-cases-us-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga and Court Cases in the US and India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4756\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 150px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4756\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/06\/rupai-shah-ramdev-yoga-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/06\/rupai-shah-ramdev-yoga-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/06\/rupai-shah-ramdev-yoga-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/06\/rupai-shah-ramdev-yoga-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>National President of BJP Amit Shah performs Yoga on the occasion of 3rd International Yoga Day in Ahmedabad in May 2017. PTI Photo\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>South Asia faculty Sunila S. Kale and Christian Novetzke continue their explorations of the global presence of yoga with\u00a0<em>Yoga and the Means and Ends of Secularism<\/em> in The Wire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2016, the Indian Supreme Court asked the Centre to formulate a policy on yoga instruction in state schools, something it hasn\u2019t done yet. Here we take a look at a similar case in the US, a case regularly cited in Indian discussions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decision in this case from California was resolved with a paradox: &#8220;Here is the ruling\u2019s paradox: Judge Meyer determined that yoga was both religious and not religious simultaneously.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Asia faculty Sunila S. 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