Mind, Soul and Consciousness: Religion, Science and the Psy-Disciplines in Modern South Asia (with a Foreword by J.N. Mohanty)

ISBN-13: 9780367660253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 130 str.

Soumen Mukherjee; Christopher Harding

Opis

This comprehensive book explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia, focusing on the burgeoning ‘psy-disciplines’ – psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy. It was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Spis treści

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 (ātmavidyā): the reconfigurations of Vedāntic gnosis in Hindu modernities

Ankur Barua



3. Consciousness and relativity: anekāntavāda 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

O autorze

Soumen Mukherjee teaches History at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. His research interests lie widely in the fields of socio-religious and intellectual history of modern South Asia. He has published in these fields and is the author of Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia: Community and Identity in the Age of Religious Internationals (2017).

Christopher Harding is Senior Lecturer in Asian History at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His published work includes Japan Story: In Search of a Nation (2018), Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan (co-edited collection; 2014), and Religious Transformation in South Asia: The Meaning of Conversion in Colonial Punjab (2008).