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| Verfasst von: | McMahan, David L. [VerfasserIn]  |
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| Titel: | Rethinking meditation |
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| Titelzusatz: | Buddhist practice in the ancient and modern worlds |
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| Verf.angabe: | David L. McMahan |
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| Verlagsort: | New York, NY |
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| Verlag: | Oxford University Press |
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| E-Jahr: | 2023 |
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| Jahr: | [2023] |
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| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 246 Seiten) |
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| Illustrationen: | Illustrationen |
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| Gesamttitel/Reihe: | Oxford scholarship online |
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| Fussnoten: | Also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 21, 2023) |
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| ISBN: | 978-0-19-766177-2 |
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| Abstract: | Mindfulness practices derived from Buddhist sources have become ubiquitous. Meditation teachers will sometimes say that this is the same practice that the Buddha taught over 2500 years ago. David McMahan shows that the standard articulation of mindfulness is, rather, a distillation of particular strands of Buddhist thought that have combined with western ideas to create a unique practice tailored to modern life. 'Rethinking Meditation' asks how and why these practices coalesced into the version we have today. |
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| | "Rethinking Meditation provides a new theoretical and historical approach to Buddhist and Buddhist-derived meditative practices. It shows how, rather than coming down to us unchanged from the time of the Buddha, the standard articulation of mindfulness as bare, non-judgmental attention to the present moment is a distillation of particular strands of classical Buddhist thought that have combined with western ideas to create a unique practice tailored to modern forms of thought and ways of life. Part genealogical study and part philosophical argument, it inquires into some of the widespread assumptions about how meditation works and what it does, presenting a view of meditative practices as technologies of the self embedded in cultural forms of life. It shows that the relationship between meditative practices and cultural context is much more crucial than is suggested in typical contemporary articulations, which often emphasize transcendence of cultural conditioning and achieving "objective" internal access to the contents of consciousness. Meditation, McMahan argues, is always situated in social contexts and draws from repertoires of cultural categories, concepts, and values, sometimes accommodating them and sometimes resisting them. Rethinking Meditation also considers the scientific study of meditation and meditation in relation to modern articulations of secularism, freedom, authenticity, appreciation, and interdependence. It also examines the potential for meditation to enhance autonomy and addresses recent attempts to bring meditative practices to bear on social, political, and environmental issues"-- |
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| DOI: | doi:10.1093/oso/9780197661741.001.0001 |
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| URL: | Resolving-System: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197661741.001.0001 |
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| | Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780197661741.pdf |
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| | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197661741.001.0001 |
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| Schlagwörter: | (s)Buddhismus / (s)Meditation / (z)Geschichte |
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| Datenträger: | Online-Ressource |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: McMahan, David L., 1965 - : Rethinking meditation. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023. - xii, 246 Seiten |
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| Sach-SW: | Religion |
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| | Religion & beliefs |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 1858271304 |
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| Lokale URL UB: |  Zum Volltext |
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Rethinking meditation / McMahan, David L. [VerfasserIn]; [2023] (Online-Ressource)
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