Buddhist insight meditation (Vipassana) and Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction: an example of dedifferentiation of religion and medicine?
For about 25 years, mindfulness meditation has attracted growing attention. Developed in the context of a traditional Asian religious tradition, mindfulness meditation originally served soteriological goals. In therapeutic settings, it has been claimed, it has become a secular consciousness technol...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Carfax Publ.
[2017]
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Journal of contemporary religion
Jahr: 2017, Band: 32, Heft: 3, Seiten: 447-463 |
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Kabat-Zinn, Jon 1944-
/ Achtsamkeitsbasierte Stressreduktion
/ Vipashyanā
/ Religion
/ Medizin
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weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Medicine
B Buddhism B dedifferentiation B Healing B Mindfulness B mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) |
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Zusammenfassung: | For about 25 years, mindfulness meditation has attracted growing attention. Developed in the context of a traditional Asian religious tradition, mindfulness meditation originally served soteriological goals. In therapeutic settings, it has been claimed, it has become a secular consciousness technology'. So far, studies have mainly been interested in clinical evidence for salutogenetic effects. Questions about if and how practices such as Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) are to be conceptualized as religious' still require further analysis. To provide a more fitting criteriology, we propose to distinguish between salvific' (liberating') and salvetive' (healing') settings of meditation, with the latter denoting a more therapeutic' outlook. It will be argued that MBSR bears elements of salvetive and salvific meditation. In the paradigm of a functional differentiation between religion' and biomedicine', MBSR's presence in biomedical institutions seems to provide a counter-example, which will be discussed in the final section. |
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ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2017.1362884 |