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A key role for yoga in Britain is a "centralist, adult-education context which emphasised physical safety and health over enlightening transformations" (p. 6). However different in styles, both were charismatic persons who favoured a particular path of yoga in a non-religious understanding and gained the approval of adult education institutions to certify yoga teachers. [Extracted from the article]

Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion, written by Robert A. Yelle In a critique of rational choice economics and sociology of religion, Yelle relates these institutions to the absolute power, exceptionalism, and pardon power of the holy (god(s)/goddesses/) sovereignty. Against Rudolf Otto's ambivalent characterization of the holy as I fascinans i and I tremendum i , Yelle gives strength to an antinomian, Janus-faced idea of sovereignty, as this clearly highlights the possibly destructive element of sovereignty/the sacred. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "Salvation Goods and Religious Markets: Theory and Applications," edited by Jörg Stolz, is presented.