Making sweat feel spiritual didn’t start with SoulCycle – a religion scholar explainsCody Musselman, Postdoctoral Research Associate, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. LouisEach January, Americans collectively atone for yet another celebratory season of indulgence. The notion that fitness is a religion – a place where people find community, ritual and ecstatic experience – has become a common refrain. Religion, remixedMore common than traditionally religious fitness programs, though, are ones that borrow the trappings of religion and more subtly tap into spiritual experience. Centuries of connectionTo understand the relationship between fitness and religion, it helps to look at their history. The next time you hear a friend assert that fitness is their new religion, know that it might not be just hyperbole.

Source: Ethiopian News January 14, 2023 18:54 UTC