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Who would have thought the descendants of the Puritans would be using words like yoga, karma, avatar or reading the Bhagavadgita? Or there is the joke that the
by jaldhar 7y ago
Who would have thought the descendants of the Puritans would be using words like yoga, karma, avatar or reading the Bhagavadgita? Or there is the joke that the four branches of Judaism are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Buddhist etc.
Mostly this is taking place at an individual not communal level at the moment but given a long enough time scale I could see it happening.
- coldtea 7y ago>Who would have thought the descendants of the Puritans would be using words like yoga, karma, avatar or reading the Bhagavadgita? Don't underestimate them! With enough marketing and dilution of concepts, and a few celebrity/rich people endorsements, they can consume shallow feel-good products made from any ancient culture (as long as they don't have to make any real commitments to said culture of course).