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| List of Figures and Tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Symbols and Notes on Sources | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: The Idea of Religious Therapeutics | |
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| Religion and Medicine | |
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| A Model of Religious Therapeutics | |
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| Body and Philosophies of Healing | |
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| Body in Western Philosophy of Medicine | |
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| Presuppositions about the Body | |
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| Descartes on Body and Medicine | |
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| Body in the History of Western Medicine | |
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| Iconoclastic Concepts of Body in Yoga, Tantra, and Ayurveda | |
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| Traditional Indian Views of Person and Body | |
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| Yoga's Use of the Body to Transcend Itself | |
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| Tantra's Enlightenable Body | |
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| Body as the Ground of Well-being in Ayurveda | |
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| Meanings of Health in Ayurveda | |
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| Inquiry into Health | |
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| Determinants of Health | |
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| Biological and Ecological Determinants | |
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| Life, Development, and Longevity | |
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| Equilibrium | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Non-susceptibility | |
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| Vitality, Endurance, and Relaxation | |
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| Medical and Psychological Determinants | |
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| Normality | |
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| Freedom from Pain | |
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| Wholeness and Integration | |
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| Awareness and Mental Clarity | |
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| Socio-cultural and Aesthetic Determinants | |
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| Relationality | |
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| Creativity | |
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| Generativity | |
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| Enjoyment | |
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| Metaphysical and Religious Determinants | |
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| Self-identity | |
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| Freedom | |
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| Ayurvedic Religious Therapeutics | |
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| Classical Yoga as a Religious Therapeutic | |
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| Meanings and Forms of Yoga | |
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| Meanings of 'Yoga' | |
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| Yoga in the Vedas, Upanisads, and Bhagavadgita | |
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| Yoga in the Vedas | |
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| Yoga in the Upanisads | |
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| Yoga in the Bhagavadgita | |
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| Traditions of Yoga Practice | |
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| A Matrix of Classical Yoga as a Religious Therapeutic | |
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| Metaphysical and Epistemic Foundations | |
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| Yoga's Therapeutic Paradigm | |
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| Yoga's Diagnosis of the Human Condition | |
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| The Yogic Remedy | |
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| Soteriology | |
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| Self-realization by Healing the Afflictions (Klesas) | |
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| Value Theory and Ethics: Health and the Good in Yoga | |
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| First Limb: Moral Self-restraints--Yama | |
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| Second Limb: Moral Commitments--Niyama | |
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| Physical Practice: The Soteriological Role of Body and Health in Yoga | |
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| Third Limb: Postures--Asana | |
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| Fourth Limb: Regulation of Vital Energy Through Breath--Pranayama | |
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| Fifth Limb: Withdrawal of the Senses--Pratyahara | |
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| Cultivation of Consciousness: The Polarity of Samadhi and Vyadhi (Illness) | |
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| Sixth Limb: Concentration--Dharana | |
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| Seventh Limb: Meditation--Dhyana | |
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| Eighth Limb: Meditative Trance--Samadhi | |
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| Liberation as Healing in Classical Yoga | |
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| Healing and Yoga's Therapeutic Paradigm | |
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| Wholeness and Holiness | |
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| Identity and Freedom | |
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| Tantra and Aesthetic Therapeutics | |
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| Body and Tantric Yogas | |
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| Features of Tantric Practice | |
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| Sexuality in Tantra | |
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| Kundalini Yoga | |
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| Mantra Yoga | |
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| Aesthetic Therapeutics in Tantra | |
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| Therapeutic Elements of Tantra | |
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| Sacred Music | |
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| Sacred Music as a Religious Therapeutic | |
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| How Is Sacred Music Therapeutic? | |
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| Breath, Music, and Healing | |
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| Body as Instrument of Sacred Music | |
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| Elements of Healing in Sanskrit Chant | |
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| Healing in Identification of Self with Cosmos | |
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| Sound as a Bridge Between Substantial and Non-substantial Being | |
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| Conclusion Community: Relationality in Religious Therapeutics | |
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| Notes | |
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| Sources | |
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| Indices | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| Sanskrit Terms | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Sanskrit Texts | |