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vCONTENTS
List of Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
Symbols and Notes on Sources xiii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction
THE IDEA OF RELIGIOUS THERAPEUTICS 1
Religion and Medicine 2
A Model of Religious Therapeutics 6Chapter One
BODY AND PHILOSOPHIES OF HEALING 11
Body in Western Philosophy of Medicine 11
Presuppositions about the Body 11
Descartes on Body and Medicine 14
Body in the History of Western Medicine 17
Iconoclastic Concepts of Body in Yoga, Tantra, andAyurveda ̄ 21
Traditional Indian Views of Person and Body 21
Yoga’s Use of the Body to Transcend Itself 27
Tantra’s Enlightenable Body 29
Body as the Ground of Well-being in Åyurveda 36