This podcast episode was originally uploaded on ABC Radio National by James Carleton.
Is religious appropriation an act of reverence? Or cultural theft?
Yoga at the gym, meditation via an app on your phone, sage-smudging a corporate office. Religious rituals and traditions are being taken out of their original context and used in everyday life by people outside the culture and faith they’re taken from. Could this be considered a kind of theft? Or is this part of a healthy modern cultural exchange?
To explore the ethical and spiritual implications of wellness-ifying religious practices are two guests researching the impact of these cases.
Listen on ABC Radio National .
