Mind, Soul and Consciousness - Religion, Science Psy Disciplines in Modern South Asia With a

Informationen zum Autor Soumen Mukherjee teaches History at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. His research interests lie widely in the fields of socio-religious and intellectual history of modern South Asia. He has published in these fields and is the author of Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia: Community and Identity in the Age of Religious Internationals (2017). Christopher Harding is Senior Lecturer in Asian History at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His published work includes Japan Story: In Search of a Nation (2018), Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan (co-edited collection; 2014), and Religious Transformation in South Asia: The Meaning of Conversion in Colonial Punjab (2008). Zusammenfassung This comprehensive book explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia, focusing on the burgeoning ‘psy-disciplines’ – psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy. It was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Jitendra Nath Mohanty 1. Mind, soul, and consciousness: religion, science, and the psy disciplines in modern South Asia Christopher Harding 2. The science of the self (atmavidya): the reconfigurations of Vedantic gnosis in Hindu modernities Ankur Barua 3. Consciousness and relativity: anekantavada and its role in Jaina epistemology Jeffery D. Long 4. Recovering wisdom of the ‘ancient rishis’: Girindrasekhar Bose, Indra Sen, and the psy-disciplines in modern India Soumen Mukherjee 5. Self-reflection and projection in Jungian ‘spirituality’: Carl Gustav Jung’s encounter with India and his critique of Indian psy-sciences Claudia Richter 6. Music, emotions and reform in South Asian Islam: perspectives from the eighteenth to the twentieth century M. Sajjad Alam Rizvi Epilogue Soumen Mukherjee ...

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• Authors: Soumen (Presidency University Mukherjee, Soumen Harding Mukherjee
• Assisted by: Christopher Harding (Editor), Harding Christopher (Editor), Soumen Mukherjee (Editor), Mukherjee Soumen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2019
• EAN: 9780367218485
• ISBN: 978-0-367-21848-5
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / General, PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spiritualism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Philosophy of Mind, Society & culture: general, Philosophy of religion, Society and culture: general, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy, HISTORY / Asia / South / General