TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fields, Gregory P.
TI  - Religious therapeutics: : body and health in yoga,ayurveda and tantra
SN  - 812081875x
U1  - 615.852 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Motilal Banarsidass
KW  - Yoga.
KW  - Ayurveda.
KW  - Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
KW  - Medicine, Ayurvedic.
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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
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