Mind, Soul and Consciousness

Religion, Science and the Psy-Disciplines in Modern South Asia (With a Foreword by J.N. Mohanty)
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-66025-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 138 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

Reihe: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

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-à-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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukherjee, Soumen

Harding, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).