Gregory P. Fields 
Religious Therapeutics [PDF ebook] 
Body and Health in Yoga, Āyurveda, and Tantra

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Religious Therapeutics explores the relationship between psychophysical health and spiritual health and presents a model for interpreting connections between religion and medicine in world traditions. This model emerges from the work’s investigation of health and religiousness in classical Yoga, Āyurveda, and Tantra–three Hindu traditions noteworthy for the central role they accord the body. Author Gregory P. Fields compares Anglo-European and Indian philosophies of body and health and uses fifteen determinants of health excavated from texts of ancient Hindu medicine to show that health concerns the person, not the body or body/mind alone. This book elucidates multifaceted views of health, and–in the context of spirituality and healing–explores themes such as mental health, meditation, and music.

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List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Symbols and Notes on Sources
Abbreviations

Introduction
THE IDEA OF RELIGIOUS THERAPEUTICS
Religion and Medicine
A Model of Religious Therapeutics

Chapter One
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

Chapter Two
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

Chapter Three
CLASSICAL YOGA AS A RELIGIOUS THERAPEUTIC

Meanings and Forms of Yoga
Meanings of ‘Yoga’ 85
Yoga in the Vedas, Upanisads, and Bhagavadgıta


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
Yoga’s Diagnosis of the Human Condition
The Yogic Remedy


Soteriology


Self-realization by Healing the Af


Value Theory and Ethics: Health and the Good in Yoga


First Limb: Moral Self-restraints—Yama
Second Limb: Moral Commitments—Niyama


Physical Practice: The Soteriological Role of Body and Health in Yoga


Third Limb: Postures—Asana
Fourth Limb: Regulation of Vital Energy Through Breath—Pranayama
Fifth Limb: Withdrawal of the Senses—Pratyahara


Cultivation of Consciousness: The Polarity of Samadhi and


Vyadhi (Illness)
Sixth Limb: Concentration—Dharana
Seventh Limb: Meditation—Dhyana
Eighth Limb: Meditative Trance—Samadhi


Liberation as Healing in Classical Yoga
Healing and Yoga’s Therapeutic Paradigm
Wholeness and Holiness
Identity and Freedom

Chapter Four
TANTRA AND AESTHETIC THERAPEUTICS

Body and Tantric Yogas


Features of Tantric Practice
Sexuality in Tantra
Kundalinı Yoga
Mantra Yoga


Aesthetic Therapeutics in Tantra


Therapeutic Elements of Tantra
Sacred Music


Sacred Music as a Religious Therapeutic


How Is Sacred Music Therapeutic?
Breath, Music, and Healing
Body as Instrument of Sacred Music
Elements of Healing in Sanskrit Chant
Healing in Identi
Sound as a Bridge Between Substantial and Non-substantial Being


Conclusion
COMMUNITY:
RELATIONALITY IN RELIGIOUS THERAPEUTICS

Notes

Sources

Indices


Subject Index
Sanskrit Terms
Index of Names
Sanskrit Texts

Giới thiệu về tác giả

Gregory P. Fields is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville.

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