The Oxford Handbook of Meditation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 September 2025
- ISBN 9780198985563
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages1040 pages
- Size 246x171 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
The Oxford Handbook of Meditation covers the development of meditation across the world and the varieties of its practices and experiences. It includes approaches from psychology, neuroscience, history, anthropology, and sociology and explores its potential for therapeutic and social change.
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Meditation techniques, including mindfulness, have become popular wellbeing practices. 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 thoughts, feelings, behaviour, and biology? What are their social, spiritual, 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, religious studies, and sociology, and it explores its potential for therapeutic and social change, as well as unusual effects.
Edited by practitioner- researchers, this book is an essential guide for all interested in meditation, including teachers, clinicians, therapists, researchers, or anyone who would like to better understand this topic.
The Oxford Handbook of Meditation offers ample resources that provide a useful overview of important questions currently being discussed in the field of meditation studies: the promise and limits of empirical research, the possibility of a transcultural science of meditation (and the risks necessarily involved in such a project), and comparative concerns about "meditation" across cultural and disciplinary boundaries. It can serve as an introduction to the field of meditation studies as well as provide direction for future research. Serious readers will no doubt agree that the Handbook successfully follows through on its promise to feed the wonder and desire to know of a wide audience of specialists and non-specialists alike.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Part I. Overview
Introduction: Understanding and studying meditation
Meditation and the Modern Encounter between Asia and the West
Studying the Effects of Meditation: The First Fifty Years
Part II. Meditation across the World's Traditions
Hinduism and Meditation: Tantra
Hinduism and Meditation: Yoga
Judaism and Meditation
Western Christianity and Meditation
Eastern Christianity and Meditation
Islam and Meditation
Theravada Buddhism and Meditation
Chan Buddhism and Meditation
Buddhist Meditation in Tibet: Exoteric and Esoteric Orientations
Classical Daoist Meditation: 400-100 B.C.E
Daoist Meditation: From 100 CE to the Present
Part III. Varieties of Meditative Practices and Experiences
Relaxation and Meditation
Concentration and Visualization Techniques in Buddhist Meditation
The Phenomenology of Meditation: Commonalities and Divergences between Christian Meditatio and Hindu Dhyāna
The Self in Meditation: The art of self-transformation
Part IV. Approaches to the Study of Meditation
Biology and Neuroscience
Meditation and the brain
Psychophysiology of Meditation
Psychology
Meditation and emotion
Individual differences in meditation outcomes
Reflections on the Role of Control in Meditation
Psychological Theories of Meditation in Early Buddhism and S??khya/Yoga
Sociology
The sociology of meditation
The demographics of meditation in the United States
Anthropology
Meditation and the post-secular condition
Christian Contemplative Thought and Practice in the Contemporary World
Goenka's Vipassana Movement: From Conversion to Disaffiliation
Meditation in Contemporary Monastic Life
Part V. Individual and Social Change through Meditation
Therapeutic Applications
Mental Illness Through the Lens of Mindfulness
Mindfulness-based interventions in the treatment of physical conditions
Transcendental Meditation in the treatment of mental and physical conditions
Zen Therapy
Social Change
Enacting Social Change Through Meditation
Meditation and Education
Meditation in Prison
Part VI. Debates and Controversies in Meditation
Challenging and Adverse Meditation Experiences: Toward A Person-Centered Approach
The Dark Nights of the Soul in Abrahamic Meditative Traditions
Meditation sickness
Meditation to kill and be killed by The Use of Samādhi Power Imperial Japan
Neuroscience and meditation: Help or hindrance?
Meditation, Exceptional Psychophysiological Control, and Parapsychology
