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CONTENTS List of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Symbols and Notes on Sources xiii Abbreviations xv Introduction THE IDEA OF RELIGIOUS THERAPEUTICS 1 Religion and Medicine 2 A Model of Religious Therapeutics 6 Chapter One BODY AND PHILOSOPHIES OF HEALING 11 Body in Western Philosophy of Medicine 11 Presuppositions about the Body 11 Descartes on Body and Medicine 14 Body in the History of Western Medicine 17 Iconoclastic Concepts of Body in Yoga, Tantra, and Āyurveda 21 Traditional Indian Views of Person and Body 21 Yoga’s Use of the Body to Transcend Itself 27 Tantra’s Enlightenable Body 29 Body as the Ground of Well-being in Åyurveda 36 v
vi religious therapeutics Chapter Two MEANINGS OF HEALTH IN ĀYURVEDA 45 Inquiry into Health 47 Determinants of Health 50 Biological and Ecological Determinants 50 Life, Development, and Longevity Equilibrium Adaptation Non-susceptibility Vitality, Endurance, and Relaxation Medical and Psychological Determinants 58 Normality Freedom from Pain Wholeness and Integration Awareness and Mental Clarity Sociocultural and Aesthetic Determinants 69 Relationality Creativity Generativity Enjoyment Metaphysical and Religious Determinants 75 Self-identity Freedom Āyurvedic Religious Therapeutics 78 Chapter Three CLASSICAL YOGA AS A RELIGIOUS THERAPEUTIC 83 Meanings and Forms of Yoga 85 Meanings of ‘Yoga’ 85 Yoga in the Vedas, UpaniÓsads, and Bhagavadg¯ıt¯a 87 Yoga in the Vedas Yoga in the UpaniÓsads Yoga in the Bhagavadg¯ıtā Traditions of Yoga Practice 91 A Matrix of Classical Yoga as a Religious Therapeutic 94 Metaphysical and Epistemic Foundations 94 Yoga’s Therapeutic Paradigm Yoga’s Diagnosis of the Human Condition The Yogic Remedy Soteriology 99 Self-realization by Healing the Afflictions (Kle´sas)
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144 religious therapeutics role of
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146 religious therapeutics KuÓnÓd
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160 religious therapeutics Breath,
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162 religious therapeutics played o
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166 religious therapeutics the hear
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168 religious therapeutics offers a
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170 religious therapeutics Buddhist
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172 religious therapeutics My Relat
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174 religious therapeutics that uti
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192 sources ÓRgveda Maurer, Walter
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194 sources Caplan, Arthur L., H. T
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196 sources Inajin, Tokeya (Kevin L
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198 sources Obenchain, Diane B. “
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Adaptation, 54-56, 76-77 Aesthetic
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Integrity, 65, 108 Jainism, 23, 42
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Laya, 93, 147 Mantra, 93, 149-53, 1
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