The Oxford handbook of meditation / edited by Miguel Farias, David Brazier and Mansur Lalljee.

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English
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  • Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
  • ©2021
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This is the most comprehensive volume to date on the science and history of meditation. Written in an accessible language by world-leading experts, it describes the various meditation practices employed to modify the self, such as concentration, recitation, breathing, and visualisation, and its effects on the mind and body. It includes debates and controversies on its varied results and aims - including liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth, union with the divine, salvation of the soul, wellbeing, and the achievement of supernatural powers.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
  • Introduction: Understanding and Studying Meditation / Miguel Farias, David Brazier, Mansur Lalljee
  • Theravada Buddhism and Meditation / Sarah Shaw
  • Chan Buddhism and Meditation / Caifang Zhu
  • Classical Daoist Meditation: 400-100 BCE / Harold D. Roth
  • Daoist Meditation: From 100 CE to the Present / Louis Komjathy
  • Concentration and Visualization Techniques in Buddhist Meditation / Nobuyoshi Yamabe
  • Meditation and the Modern Encounter between Asia and the West / Richard E. King
  • The Phenomenology of Meditation: Commonalities and Divergences between Christian Meditatio and Hindu Dhyāna / Carlos Henrique do Carmo Silva
  • The Self in Meditation: The Art of Self-Transformation / Jessica Frazier
  • Relaxation and Meditation / Ayesha Nathoo
  • Meditation and the Brain in Health and Disease / Kieran C. R. Fox, B. Rael Cahn
  • Psychophysiology of Meditation / Dusana Dorjee
  • Meditation and Emotion / Tim Lomas
  • Individual differences in meditation outcomes / Ivana Buric, Inti A. Brazil, Valerie van Mulukom
  • Psychological Theories of Meditation in Early Buddhism and Hinduism / Peter Sedlmeier, Kunchapudi Srinivas
  • The Demographics of Meditation in the United States / Conrad Hackett
  • Meditation and the Post-Secular Condition / Manu Bazzano
  • Studying the Effects of Meditation: The First Fifty Years / Doug Oman
  • Christian Contemplative Thought and Practice in the Contemporary World / Douglas E. Christie
  • Goenka's Vipassana Movement: From Conversion to Disaffiliation / Masoumeh Rahmani
  • Meditation in Contemporary Monastic Life / Caroline Starkey
  • Mental Illness through the Lens of Mindfulness / Patricia Lynn Dobkin, Kaveh Monshat
  • Mindfulness-based Interventions in the Treatment of Physical Conditions / Madhav Goyal, Heather L. Rusch
  • Transcendental Meditation in the Treatment of Mental and Physical Conditions / David W. Orme-Johnson
  • Zen Therapy / David Brazier
  • Neuroscience and Meditation: Help or Hindrance? / Ronald E. Purser, David J. Lewis
  • Enacting Social Change through Buddhist Meditation / Ann Gleig
  • Hinduism and Meditation: Tantra / Gavin Flood
  • Meditation and Education / Candy Gunther Brown
  • Meditation in Prison / Katherine M. Auty
  • Meditation to Kill and Be Killed By: The Use of Samādhi Power in Imperial Japan / Brian Victoria
  • The Dark Nights of the Soul in Abrahamic Meditative Traditions / Nathan Fisher
  • Meditation Sickness / Juhn Y. Ahn
  • Meditation, Exceptional Psychophysiological Control, and Parapsychology / Etzel Cardeña
  • Reflections on the Role of Control in Meditation / Deane H. Shapiro Jr.
  • Hinduism and Meditation: Yoga / Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen
  • The Sociology of Meditation / Michal Pagis
  • Challenging and Adverse Meditation Experiences: Toward a Person-Centered Approach / Jared R. Lindahl, Willoughby B. Britton, David J. Cooper, Laurence J. Kirmayer
  • Buddhist Meditation in Tibet: Exoteric and Esoteric Orientations / Georgios T. Halkias
  • Judaism and Meditation / Tomer Persico
  • Western Christianity and Meditation / Martin Laird
  • Eastern Christianity and Meditation / Cyril Hovorun
  • Islam and Meditation / Scott Kugle.
ISBN
  • 0-19-253638-9
  • 0-19-253637-0
  • 0-19-184656-2
OCLC
1276858920
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