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100			_aFields, Gregory P.
245		0	_aReligious therapeutics: _bbody and health in yoga,ayurveda and tantra/ _cGregory P. Fields
260			_aNew Delhi : _bMotilal Banarsidass, _c2001.
300			_a222 p.
440			_aSUNY series in religious studies.
505			_a 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.
650			_aYoga.
650			_aAyurveda.
650			_aMedicine -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
650			_aMedicine, Ayurvedic.
942			_cWB16