Religious Therapeutics

Download or read book Religious Therapeutics written by Gregory P. Fields and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious therapeutics explores the relationship between psychophysical health and spiritual and health presents a model for interpreting connections between religion and medicine in world traditions. This model emerges from the work`s investigation of health and religiousness in classical yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra-Three Hindu traditions note worthy for the central role they accord the body. Author gregory P. Fields compares Anglo-European and Indian philosophies of body and health and uses fifteen determinants of health excavated from texts of ancient hindu medicine to show that health concerns the person, not the body or body/mind alone.