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Meditation and Culture - The Interplay of Practice and Context (Hardcover)
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Meditation and Culture - The Interplay of Practice and Context (Hardcover)
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Behind the stereotype of a solitary meditator closing his eyes to
the world, meditation always takes place in close interaction with
the surrounding culture. Meditation and Culture: The Interplay of
Practice and Context explores cases in which the relation between
meditative practice and cultural context is particularly complex.
The internationally-renowned contributors discuss practices that
travel from one culture to another, or are surrounded by competing
cultures. They explore cultures that bring together competing
practices, or that are themselves mosaics of elements of different
origins. They seek to answer the question: What is the relationship
between meditation and culture? The effects of meditation may arise
from its symbolic value within larger webs of cultural meaning, as
in the contextual view that still dominates cultural and religious
studies. They may also be psychobiological responses to the
practice itself, the cultural context merely acting as a catalyst
for processes originating in the body and mind of the practitioner.
Meditation and Culture gives no single definitive explanation, but
taken together, the different viewpoints presented point to the
complexity of the relationship.
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