Many American Christians who practice Yoga seldom reflect critically on the implications of assimilating this spiritual discipline into their life. Responding to this contemporary phenomenon Striving for Authentic Idnetity considers the situation of Christian American appropriation of Yoga, looking to two texts to do so: Gregory of Nyssas Life of Moses and Patañjalis Yoga-Sutras. In this theoretical reflection on appropriation of another cultures spirituality, Hodgman draws out parallel emphases on personal transformation and striving in both texts, suggesting a point of reconciliation for...