Religious therapeutics : body and health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra / Gregory P. Fields.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fields, Gregory P., 1961- author.

Series:

SUNY series in religious studies.

SUNY Series in Religious Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Ayurvedic.

Medicine--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Medicine.

Yoga.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : State University of New York Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Symbols and Notes on Sources

Abbreviations

The Idea of Religious Therapeutics

Body and Philosophies of Healing

Meanings of Health in Āyurveda

Classical Yoga as a Religious Therapeutic

Tantra and Aesthetic Therapeutics

Community: Relationality in Religious Therapeutics

Notes

Sources

Subject Index

Sanskrit Terms

Index of Names

Sanskrit Texts

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780791490860

0791490866