Religious
Therapeutics : Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra/Gregory P. Fields.
Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2002, viii, 222 p., figs, tables, $11 (pbk). ISBN
81-208-1875-X.Religious
Therapeutics : Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra/Gregory P. Fields.
Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2002, viii, 222 p., figs, tables, $11 (pbk). ISBN
81-208-1875-X.
Contents: Introduction. The idea of religious Therapeutics. 1. Body and philosophies of healing. 2. Meanings of health in Ayurveda. 3. Classical Yoga as a religious Therapeutic. 4. Tantra and aesthetic Therapeutics. Conclusion. Community: relationality in religious Therapeutics. Indices. Subject indexs.
"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, Ayurveda, 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."