Chp.4 Mindful America: Mainstreaming Mindfulness
The general idea of chapter four in Wilson’s book Mindful America, is to showcase how this new era and society has adopted and transformed mindfulness to fit their own personal...
Mindful America, Chapter 4: Mainstreaming Mindfulness
Chapter 4 of Mindful America, by Jeff Wilson, focuses on how mindfulness has been used in the West to “meet the demands of mainstream American society”. Topics included in...
Mindful America, Chapter 5: Marketing Mindfulness
Chapter 5 of Jeff Wilson’s Mindful America begins with the story of Elias Amidon, a teacher of mindfulness, and twenty-five of his students. After completing some meditative nature...
Mainstreaming Mindfulness: How is Mindfulness Adapted to Middle Class Needs?
In the book, Mindful America written by J. Wilson, There are large parallels between Buddhism and what Americans have done with certain customs to slowly create an American Buddhism....
Mystifying Mindfulness: How is Mindfulness Made Available for Appropriation?
In the introduction of Chapter 2, Wilson states the definition of mystifying. Mystifying is defined as: to involve obscurity; to obscure the meaning or character of (Oxford English Dictionary)....
Medicalizing Mindfulness: How Is Mindfulness Modified to fit A Scientific and Therapeutic Culture?
Wilson begins this chapter with a simple anecdote of a young monk who goes through a nervous breakdown. The story takes place in 1947 Sri Lanka and is focused...
Wilson Chapter 3: Medicalizing Mindfulness: How is Mindfulness Modified to Fit a Scientific and Therapeutic Culture?
At the start of the third chapter of Mindful America, titled “Medicalizing Mindfulness: How is Mindfulness Modified to fit a Scientific and Therapeutic culture?” Jeff Wilson tells an anecdote...
Wilson Ch. 2: “Mystifying Mindfulness”
In the second chapter of his book Mindful America, Jeff Wilson describes how the practice of mindfulness made its way to America and into American Culture. Titled “Mystifying Mindfulness:...
Ch 7: The Spiritual Body
In chapter seven of The Modern Spirit of Asia, author Peter Van Der Veer explores the differences of spirituality in India and China and their respective spiritual practices of...
Ch. 7: The Spiritual Body
In chapter 7 of The Modern Spirit of Asia, van der Veer writes about the major differences between Indian yoga and Chinese qi gong. His main goal is to site the...
Ch 5: Secularism’s Magic
In chapter 5 of The Modern Spirit of Asia, author van der Veer explores the 19th century effort to purge religions of their magical components. This effort...
van der Veer Chapter 6: “Smash Temples, Build Schools” Comparing Secularism in India and China
Introduction: In the opening of this chapter van der Veer tackles the complex topic of secularism and secular ideology. He does that by breaking down secularism into 3...
Chapter 5 Van der Veer, Secularism’s Magic
Peter Van der Veer identifies the hidden interaction of magic between “religion and secularism,” (115) and how Western distinction was made based on the “beliefs and practices that are...
Van der Veer: Chapters 5&6
Chapter 5: Secularism’s Magic In this Chapter Van der Veer specifically goes into the hidden “third” in this chapter. He makes a comparison from religion and secularism. Also, linking...
Chapter 2: Spirituality in Modern Society
In Chapter 2 of The Modern Spirit of Asia, Peter Van Der Veer reviews “how the concept of spirituality moved from the West to India and China and...
Spirituality in Modern Society (Chapter 2)
In Chapter 2 of The Modern Spirit of Asia, Peter Van Der Veer talks about how the Influence of Spirituality moved from the west to China and India, and how it...
Chapter 2: Spirituality in Modern Society
In chapter 2 of Peter van der Veer’s book The Modern Spirit of Asia, he discusses how spirituality has moved between the West and East (India and China), and...
Van der Veer chapter 3, The Making of Oriental Religion
In Chapter 3 of “The Modern Spirit of Asia,” Peter Van Der Veer sets out to investigate the impact of nineteenth-century Western oriental studies on both Indian and Chinese...
The Making of Oriental Religion (Van der Veer, Chapter 3)
Michael Foley via Compfight In chapter three of his book, The Modern Spirit of Asia, Peter Van der Veer discusses the creation of “oriental religion” and the role that...
The Making of Oriental Religion (Chapter 3)
In chapter 3, “The Making of Oriental Religion,” the author Peter van der Veer highlights the origin, history, and study of Oriental religion. Oriental Religion includes Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism,...
Van der Veer Chapter 3: The Making of Oriental Religion
Daniel Mennerich via Compfight In the third chapter of his book The Modern Spirit of Asia, Peter van der Veer describes and analyzes the “impact of nineteenth century scholarship...
Curanderismo, Neo-shamanism, and the New Age of Spiritual Healing
In this chapter, Hendrickson investigates the integration of other forms of New Age or Indigenous medicine into curanderism to form a universal all encompassing form of alternative healing. He...
Border Medicine Chapter 7: Curanderismo as Transcultural Religious Healing Tradition
*Page citations are taken from the etext Hendrickson, Brett (2014-12-05). Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo (North American Religions) NYU Press. In chapter 7...