Meditation and culture : the interplay of practice and context / / edited by Halvor Eifring

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 204/.35
• Soggetto topico: Meditation; Religion and culture
• Persona (resp. second.): EifringHalvor
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction. 1 Meditative Practice and Cultural Context, Halvor Eifring -- Section 1 Traveling Practices. 2 The Daoist Adaptation of Buddhist Insight Meditation, Livia Kohn ; 3 Ignatian Visual Meditation in Seventeenth-Century China, Nicolas Standaert ; 4 Modern Meditation in the Context of Science, Øyvind Ellingsen and Are Holen -- Section 2 Competing Practices. 5 Mindfulness and Mindlessness in Early Chán, Robert H. Sharf ; 6 Reverence and Quietude in Neo-Confucianism, Rur-bin Yang ; 7 Meditative Pluralism in Hanshan Déqing, Halvor Eifring -- Section 3 Competing Cultures. 8 The Hindi Sants' Two Yogic Paths to the Formless Lord, Daniel Gold ; 9 Inner Islamization in Java, Paul D. Stange ; 10 Cinnabar-fi eld Meditation in Korea, Don Baker -- Section 4 Cultural Mosaics. 11 Tibetan Chöd as Practiced by Ani Lochen Rinpoche, Hanna Havnevik ; 12 Vedic Chanting as a Householder's Meditation Practice in the Tamil Saiva Siddhanta Tradition, M. D. Muthukumaraswamy ; 13 Spontaneous Thoughts in Meditative Traditions, Halvor Eifring -- Notes -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Behind the stereotype of a solitary meditator closing his eyes to the world, meditation always takes place in close interaction with the surrounding culture. Meditation and Culture: The Interplay of Practice and Context explores cases in which the relation between meditative practice and cultural context is particularly complex. The internationally-renowned contributors discuss practices that travel from one culture to another, or are surrounded by competing cultures. They explore cultures that bring together competing practices, or that are themselves mosaics of elements of different origins. They seek to answer the question: What is the relationship between meditation and culture? The effects of meditation may arise from its symbolic value within larger webs of cultural meaning, as in the contextual view that still dominates cultural and religious studies. They may also be psychobiological responses to the practice itself, the cultural context merely acting as a catalyst for processes originating in the body and mind of the practitioner. Meditation and Culture gives no single definitive explanation, but taken together, the different viewpoints presented point to the complexity of the relationship."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Titolo autorizzato: Meditation and culture
• ISBN: 1-4725-7992-5; 1-4742-2008-8; 1-4725-7991-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797584503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II