Religious therapeutics body and health in Yoga, Āyurveda, and Tantra - Fields, Gregory P. (State University of New York, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-199) and indexes
Introduction: The Idea of Religious Therapeutics -- - Religion and Medicine -- - A Model of Religious Therapeutics -- - Body and Philosophies of Healing -- - Body in Western Philosophy of Medicine -- - Presuppositions about the Body -- - Descartes on Body and Medicine -- - Body in the History of Western Medicine -- - Iconoclastic Concepts of Body in Yoga, Tantra, and Ayurveda -- - Traditional Indian Views of Person and Body -- - Yoga's Use of the Body to Transcend Itself -- - Tantra's Enlightenable Body -- - Body as the Ground of Well-being in Ayurveda -- - Meanings of Health in Ayurveda -- - Inquiry into Health -- - Determinants of Health -- - Biological and Ecological Determinants -- - Life, Development, and Longevity -- - Equilibrium -- - Adaptation -- - Non-susceptibility -- - Vitality, Endurance, and Relaxation -- - Medical and Psychological Determinants -- - Normality -- - Freedom from Pain -- - Wholeness and Integration -- - Awareness and Mental Clarity -- - Socio-cultural and Aesthetic Determinants -- - Relationality -- - Creativity -- - Generativity -- - Enjoyment -- - Metaphysical and Religious Determinants -- - Self-identity -- - Freedom -- - Ayurvedic Religious Therapeutics -- - Classical Yoga as a Religious Therapeutic -- - Meanings and Forms of Yoga -- - Meanings of 'Yoga' -- - Yoga in the Vedas, Upanisads, and Bhagavadgita -- - Yoga in the Vedas -- - Yoga in the Upanisads -- - Yoga in the Bhagavadgita -- - Traditions of Yoga Practice -- - A Matrix of Classical Yoga as a Religious Therapeutic -- - Metaphysical and Epistemic Foundations -- - Yoga's Therapeutic Paradigm