2010 2015-04-28 10.17192/mjr.2010.15.3422 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2010-109-34224 keine Angabe Autobiography of a Schism In my youth, I was a member of Yogi Bhajan’s Healthy Happy Holy Organisation (3HO), a new religious movement that blends kundalini yoga with Sikhism. In the process of leaving that organisation, I formed a short-lived splinter group – the Spiritual Dawn Community – that lasted less than a year. In the present article, I recount the narrative of this splintering, and then reflect on the split in terms of different theoretical discussions of schisms and apostasy. Though prior theorizing provides certain insights, no analyst has thus far adequately captured the dynamic and fluid situation that leads up to a schism. From the perspective of someone who has experienced the schismatic process from the inside, it is clear that there are any number of different points at which a schism could have been prevented – even in cases where the split appears to have been inevitable.

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https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2010.15.3422 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2010-109-34224 James R. Lewis Lewis, James R. Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg 2015-04-28 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2010/109/3422/3422.png article 2015-04-28 application/pdf 2010 Autobiography of a Schism English 2015-04-28 In my youth, I was a member of Yogi Bhajan’s Healthy Happy Holy Organisation (3HO), a new religious movement that blends kundalini yoga with Sikhism. In the process of leaving that organisation, I formed a short-lived splinter group – the Spiritual Dawn Community – that lasted less than a year. In the present article, I recount the narrative of this splintering, and then reflect on the split in terms of different theoretical discussions of schisms and apostasy. Though prior theorizing provides certain insights, no analyst has thus far adequately captured the dynamic and fluid situation that leads up to a schism. From the perspective of someone who has experienced the schismatic process from the inside, it is clear that there are any number of different points at which a schism could have been prevented – even in cases where the split appears to have been inevitable. 15 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2010/109/cover.png Vol 15 No 1 (2010) https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/cover.png Institute for Comparative Cultural Research - Study of Religions and Anthropology Religion Philosophy and theory of religion 1996 1418722-x Periodical urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-00048 Marburg Journal of Religion 1612-2941 Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften und Philosophie Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg Marburg Philipps-Universität Marburg 2010-04-28 2010 PeriodicalPart https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2010.15.1 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2010-1098

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