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Religious Therapeutics

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Explores the relationship between health and religion based on the model offered by the Hindu traditions of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra.

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.

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ISBN: 9780791449165
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Author: Gregory P Fields
Publisher: SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 222 pages
Series: SUNY Series in Religious Studies
Genres: Hinduism
East Asian religions
Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies

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