Book Launch:
Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies, 1st Edition.
By Suzanne Newcombe, Karen O’Brien-Kop.
"The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book analyses yoga and meditation studies in a variety of religious, historical and geographical settings. The chapters, authored by an international set of experts, are laid out across five sections:
Introduction to yoga and meditation studies
History of yoga and meditation in South Asia
Doctrinal perspectives: technique and praxis
Global and regional transmissions
Disciplinary Framings
In addition to up-to-date explorations of the history of yoga and meditation in the Indian subcontinent, new contexts include a case study of yoga and meditation in the contemporary Tibetan diaspora, and unique summaries of historical developments in Japan and Latin America as well as an introduction to the growing academic study of yoga in Korea. Underpinned by critical and theoretical engagement, the volume provides an in-depth guide to the history of yoga and meditation studies and combines the best of established research with attention to emerging directions for future investigation. This handbook will be of interest to multidisciplinary academic audiences from across the humanities, social sciences and sciences."
Biography
Suzanne Newcombe is a senior lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University, UK, and Honorary Director of Inform, an independent charitable organisation which researches and provides information about minority religions and is based at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London, UK.
Karen O'Brien-Kop is a lecturer in Asian Religions and Ethics at the University of Roehampton, UK.
Table of Contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO YOGA AND MEDITATION STUDIES
Reframing Yoga and Meditation Studies – Karen O’Brien-Kop and Suzanne Newcombe
Decolonising Yoga – Shameem Black
Meditation in Contemporary Contexts: Current Discussions – Ville Husgafvel
The Scholar-Practitioner of Yoga in the Western Academy – Mark Singleton and Borayin Larios
Neoliberal Yoga – Andrea Jain
PART II: HISTORY OF YOGA AND MEDITATION IN SOUTH ASIA
How Yoga Became Yoga: Yoga and Meditation up to the Classical Period – Kengo Harimoto
Buddhist Meditation in South Asia: An Overview – Florin Deleanu
Tantric Transformations of Yoga: Kuṇḍalinī in the 9-10th century – Olga Serbaeva
Early Haṭhayoga – Mark Singleton
Yoga and Meditation in Modern Esoteric Traditions – Julian Strube
Hindu Ascetics and the Political in Contemporary India – Raphaël Voix
Yoga and Meditation as a Health Intervention – Suzanne Newcombe
PART III: DOCTRINAL PERSPECTIVES: TECHNIQUE AND PRAXIS
Yoga and Meditation in the Jain Tradition – Samani Pratibha Pragya
Daoist Meditation – Louis Komjathy
Islam, Yoga and Meditation – Patrick D’Silva
Sikhi(sm): Yoga and Meditation – Balbinder S. Bhopal
Christianity: Classical, Modern, and Post-Modern Forms of Contemplation – Michael Stoeber and Jaegil Lee
Secular Discourse as a Legitimating Strategy for Mindfulness Meditation – Masoumeh Rahmani
PART IV: GLOBAL AND REGIONAL TRANSMISSIONS
Yoga and Meditation Traditions in Insular Southeast Asia – Andrea Acri
Yoga in Tibet – Naomi Worth
The Political History of Meditation and Yoga in Japan – Kurita Hidehiko
Yoga and Meditation in Korea – Park Kwangsoo and Park Younggil
Yoga in Latin America: A Critical Overview – Adrián Muñoz
Anglophone Yoga and Meditation Outside of India – Suzanne Newcombe and Philip Deslippe
The Yogic Body in Global Transmission – Sravana Borkataky-Varma
PART V: DISCIPLINARY FRAMINGS
Philology and Digital Humanities – Charles Li
Observing Yoga: The Use of Ethnography to Develop Yoga Studies – Daniela Bevilacqua
Yoga and Philosophy: Ontology, Epistemology, Ethics – Mikel Burley
On ‘Meditational Art’ and Maṇḍalas as Objects of Meditation – Gudrun Bühnemann
The Psychophysiology of Yoga: Characteristics of the Main Components and Review of Research Studies – Laura Schmalzl, Pamela Jeter and Sat Bir Khalsa
Meditation and the Cognitive Sciences – Asaf Federman
Inclusive Identities – The Lens of Critical Theory – Karen-Ann Wong
Yoga: Between Meditation and Movement – Matylda Ciołkosz
Sound and Yoga – Finnian M.M. Gerety
