Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine

Hickey, Wakoh Shannon (著)

作者

Hickey, Wakoh Shannon (著)

出版日期

2019.03.28

頁次

324

出版者

Oxford University Press

出版者網址

https://academic.oup.com/

出版地

New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國]

資料類型

書籍=Book

使用語言

英文=English

附註項

Rev. Wakoh Shannon Hickey, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Notre Dame of Maryland University. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and previously worked as a journalist, editor, and corporate trainer. She is also a professional chaplain, a priest of Soto Zen Buddhism, and a certified leader of InterPlay®. She enjoys research, teaching, contemplative practice, interfaith engagement, and flying stunt kites.

關鍵詞

Mindfulness; yoga; meditation; New Thought; Christian Science; mind-body medicine; Emanuel Swedenborg; Phineas Quimby; modernist Buddhism; Vedanta

摘要

Mindfulness is widely claimed to improve health and performance, and historians typically say that efforts to promote meditation and yoga therapeutically began in the 1970s. In fact, they began much earlier, and that early history offers important lessons for the present and future. This book traces the history of mind-body medicine from eighteenth-century Mesmerism to the current Mindfulness boom and reveals how religion, race, and gender have shaped events. Many of the first Americans to advocate meditation for healing were women leaders of the Mind Cure movement, which emerged in the late nineteenth century. They believed that by transforming their consciousness, they could also transform oppressive circumstances in which they lived, and some were activists for social reform. Trained by Buddhist and Hindu missionaries, these women promoted meditation through personal networks, religious communities, and publications. Some influenced important African American religious movements, as well. For women and black men, Mind Cure meant not just happiness but liberation in concrete political, economic, and legal terms. The Mind Cure movement exerted enormous pressure on mainstream American religion and medicine, and in response, white, male doctors and clergy with elite academic credentials appropriated some of its methods and channeled them into scientific psychology and medicine. As mental therapeutics became medicalized, individualized, and then commodified, the religious roots of meditation, like the social justice agendas of early Mind Curers, fell away. After tracing how we got from Mind Cure to Mindfulness, this book reveals what got lost in the process.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1:Mysticism, Mesmerism, Mind Cure
2:Individualist and Community-Oriented Mind Cure
4:Mind Cure Medicalized: The Emmanuel Movement and Its Heirs
5:Is Mindfulness Religion?
6:Is Mindfulness Effective?
7:From Mind Cure to Mindfulness: What Got Lost
Appendix: Notes on Methods and Theory
Notes
Index

ISBN

9780190864248 (hc); 9780190864279 (eb)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190864248.001.0001

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