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Mind Cure - How Meditation Became Medicine (Hardcover)
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Mind Cure - How Meditation Became Medicine (Hardcover)
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Mindfulness and yoga are widely said to improve mental and physical
health, and booming industries have emerged to teach them as
secular techniques. This movement is typically traced to the 1970s,
but it actually began a century earlier. Wakoh Shannon Hickey shows
that most of those who first advocated meditation for healing were
women: leaders of the "Mind Cure" movement, which emerged during
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Instructed by
Buddhist and Hindu missionaries, many of these women believed that
by transforming consciousness, they could also transform oppressive
conditions in which they lived. For women - and many
African-American men - "Mind Cure" meant not just happiness, but
liberation in concrete political, economic, and legal terms. In
response to the perceived threat posed by this movement, white male
doctors and clergy with elite academic credentials began to channel
key Mind Cure methods into "scientific" psychology and medicine. As
mental therapeutics became medicalized and commodified, the
religious roots of meditation, like the social-justice agendas of
early Mind Curers, fell by the wayside. Although characterized as
"universal," mindfulness has very specific historical and cultural
roots, and is now largely marketed by and accessible to affluent
white people. Hickey examines religious dimensions of the
Mindfulness movement and clinical research about its effectiveness.
By treating stress-related illness individualistically, she argues,
the contemporary movement obscures the roles religious communities
can play in fostering civil society and personal wellbeing, and
diverts attention from systemic factors fueling stress-related
illness, including racism, sexism, and poverty.
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