Word: obstat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yoga position, called "Reintegration," is recommended by a new sort of yogi. Not only a Westerner but a Benedictine monk, Father J.M. Dechanet found in yoga a valuable approach to Christian prayer and practice. Last week his book, Christian Yoga (Harper; $3.75), was on U.S. bookstands, complete with nihil obstat and imprimatur. Father Dechanet, 54, now prior of the Monastery of Saint-Benoit at Kansenia in the new Congo republic, has already found a following for his ideas in France among Christians who admire the physical and psychological disciplines of the East without accepting its negative and impersonal theology...