The Ambivalent Role of Women in the Yoga Scares of Early 20th Century America
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I had the fortune of coming across a 2015 essay by Philipp Deslippe, a doctoral student studying the history of American religion at UC Santa Barbara, about the “American Yoga Scare of 1927.” The “Yoga Scare” in question here involves Henry Simpson Johnston, a lawyer who won the governorship of Oklahoma in 1926, his secretary and confidante Mrs. Oliver “Mamie” Hammonds, and Hammond’s uncle, Judge James Armstrong. Deslippe elaborates:
The Ambivalent Role of Women in the Yoga Scares of Early 20th Century America
The Ambivalent Role of Women in the Yoga…
The Ambivalent Role of Women in the Yoga Scares of Early 20th Century America
I had the fortune of coming across a 2015 essay by Philipp Deslippe, a doctoral student studying the history of American religion at UC Santa Barbara, about the “American Yoga Scare of 1927.” The “Yoga Scare” in question here involves Henry Simpson Johnston, a lawyer who won the governorship of Oklahoma in 1926, his secretary and confidante Mrs. Oliver “Mamie” Hammonds, and Hammond’s uncle, Judge James Armstrong. Deslippe elaborates: