Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?

Yoga and mindfulness activities, with roots in Asian traditions such as Hinduism or Buddhism, have been brought into growing numbers of public schools since the ‘70s. While they are commonly assumed to be secular educational tools, Candy Gunther Brown asks whether religion is truly left out of the equation in the context of public-school curricula.