The Oxford Handbook of Meditation

Meditation techniques, including mindfulness, have become popular wellbeing practices and the scientific study of their effects has recently turned 50 years old. But how much do we know about them: what were they developed for and by whom? How similar or different are they, how effective can they be in changing our minds and biology, what are their social and ethical implications?

The Oxford Handbook of Meditation is the most comprehensive volume published on meditation, written in accessible language by world-leading experts on the science and history of these techniques. It covers the development of meditation across the world and the varieties of its practices and experiences. It includes approaches from various disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, history, anthropology, and sociology and it explores its potential for therapeutic and social change, as well as unusual or negative effects.

Edited by practitioner-researchers, this book is the ultimate guide for all interested in meditation, including teachers, clinicians, therapists, researchers, or anyone who would like to learn more about this topic.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

• Foreword


• Part I. Overview


• 1: Miguel Farias, David Brazier, and Mansur Lalljee: Understanding and studying meditation


• 2: Richard King: Meditation and the Modern Encounter between Asia and the West


• 3: Doug Oman: Studying the Effects of Meditation: The First Fifty Years


• Part II. Meditation across the World's Traditions


• 4: Gavin Flood: Hinduism and Meditation: Tantra


• 5: Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen: Hinduism and Meditation: Yoga


• 6: Tomer Persico: Judaism and Meditation


• 7: Martin Laird: Western Christianity and Meditation


• 8: Cyril Hovorun: Eastern Christianity and Meditation


• 9: Scott Kugle: Meditation in the Islamic Tradition


• 10: Sarah Shaw: Theravada Buddhism and Meditation


• 11: Caifang Zhu: Chan Buddhism and Meditation


• 12: Georgios Halkias: Buddhist Meditation in Tibet: Exoteric and Esoteric Orientations


• 13: Harold Roth: Classical Daoist Meditation: 400-100 B.C.E


• 14: Louis Komjathy: Daoist Meditation: From 100 CE to the Present


• Part III. Varieties of Meditative Practices and Experiences


• 15: Nobuyoshi Yamabe: Concentration and Visualization Techniques in Buddhist Meditation


• 16: Carlos do Carmo Silva: The Phenomenology of Meditation: Commonalities and Divergences between Christian Meditatio and Hindu Dhy?na


• 17: Jessica Frazier: The Self in Meditation: The art of self-transformation


• 18: Ayesha Nathoo: Relaxation and Meditation


• Part IV. Approaches to the Study of Meditation


• Biology and Neuroscience


• 19: Kieran C. R. Fox and B. Rael Cahn: Meditation and the brain


• 20: Dusana Dorjee: Psychophysiology of Meditation


• Psychology


• 21: Tim Lomas: Meditation and emotion


• 22: Ivana Buric and Inti Brazil: Individual differences in meditation outcomes


• 23: Peter Sedlmeier and Kunchapudi Srinivas_: Psychological Theories of Meditation in Early Buddhism and S??khya/Yoga


• Sociology


• 24: Michal Pagis: The sociology of meditation


• 25: Conrad Hackett: The demographics of meditation in the United States


• Anthropology


• 26: Manu Bazzano: Meditation and the post-secular condition


• 27: Douglas E. Christie: Christian Contemplative Thought and Practice in the Contemporary World


• 28: Masoumeh Rahmani: Goenka's Vipassana Movement: From Conversion to Disaffiliation


• 29: Caroline Starkey: Meditation in Contemporary Monastic Life


• Part V. Individual and Social Change through Meditation


• Therapeutic Applications


• 30: Patricia Lynn Dobkin and Kaveh Monshat: Mental Illness Through the Lens of Mindfulness


• 31: Madhav Goyal and Heather L. Rusch: Mindfulness-based interventions in t
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