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Religious therapeutics : body and health in Yoga, Āyurveda, and Tantra /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fields, Gregory P., 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York, ©2001.
Colección:SUNY series in religious studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Idea of Religious Therapeutics
  • Religion and Medicine
  • A Model of Religious Therapeutics
  • Body and Philosophies of Healing
  • Body in Western Philosophy of Medicine
  • Presuppositions about the Body
  • Descartes on Body and Medicine
  • Body in the History of Western Medicine
  • Iconoclastic Concepts of Body in Yoga, Tantra, and Ayurveda
  • Traditional Indian Views of Person and Body
  • Yoga's Use of the Body to Transcend Itself
  • Tantra's Enlightenable Body
  • Body as the Ground of Well-being in Ayurveda
  • Meanings of Health in Ayurveda
  • Inquiry into Health
  • Determinants of Health
  • Biological and Ecological Determinants
  • Life, Development, and Longevity
  • Equilibrium
  • Adaptation
  • Non-susceptibility
  • Vitality, Endurance, and Relaxation
  • Medical and Psychological Determinants
  • Normality
  • Freedom from Pain
  • Wholeness and Integration
  • Awareness and Mental Clarity
  • Socio-cultural and Aesthetic Determinants
  • Relationality
  • Creativity
  • Generativity
  • Enjoyment
  • Metaphysical and Religious Determinants
  • Self-identity
  • Freedom
  • Ayurvedic Religious Therapeutics
  • Classical Yoga as a Religious Therapeutic
  • Meanings and Forms of Yoga
  • Meanings of 'Yoga'
  • Yoga in the Vedas, Upanisads, and Bhagavadgita
  • Yoga in the Vedas
  • Yoga in the Upanisads
  • Yoga in the Bhagavadgita
  • Traditions of Yoga Practice
  • A Matrix of Classical Yoga as a Religious Therapeutic
  • Metaphysical and Epistemic Foundations
  • Yoga's Therapeutic Paradigm.