Mind, soul and consciousness : religion, science and the psy-disciplines in modern South Asia
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Mind, soul and consciousness : religion, science and the psy-disciplines in modern South Asia
（South Asian history and culture）
Routledge, 2020, c2019
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"First published 2019 by Routledge ... First issued in paperback 2020"--T.p. verso
"The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal South Asian History and Culture, volume 9, issue 3 (July 2018)."--P. [vi]
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This comprehensive volume explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia.
It focuses on the burgeoning 'psy-disciplines' - psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy - and their links with religion, science, philosophy, and modern notions of the mystical and spiritual, not just in South Asia, but around the world. The authors explore the global flows of ideas that gathered pace during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including: the idea(s) of self within 'Hindu modernities'; the history of relativity of consciousness in Jaina epistemology; Jungian critiques of Cartesian rationalism; Islamic reform vis-a-vis Sufi mysticism; and the re-examination and invocations of key strands of the fields of 'Indian philosophy' and the 'psy-disciplines' in modern India. Together these chapters stoke a critical engagement with existing conceptual boundaries and categories of mind, soul, consciousness, and body-mind relationship in modern Asian and European spiritual and intellectual traditions.
This book will interest scholars and students of cross-cultural philosophy, intellectual history, history of religion, religious studies, and history of the mind sciences. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal South Asian History and Culture.
Table of Contents
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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