Mind, Soul and Consciousness - 9780367660253

Taylor & Francis

Mind, Soul and ConsciousnessReligion, Science and the Psy-Disciplines in Modern South Asia (With a Foreword by J.N. Mohanty)\nAuthor(s): Soumen Mukherjee, Christopher Harding\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367660253, 978-0367660253\nSynopsis\nThis comprehensive volume explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia.\n\nIt 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--vis Sufi myst.