Remembering the Present (eBook)

Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia

J. L. Cassaniti (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
318 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-1416-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The book is ambitious and easy to read, has many "e;rich descriptions,"e; that would be good for undergraduates and graduate students interested in mindfulness, Southeast Asian Theravada Buddhism, and the anthropology of Buddhism. - Religious Studies ReviewWhat is mindfulness, and how does it vary as a concept across different cultures? How does mindfulness find expression in practice in the Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia? What role does mindfulness play in everyday life? J. L. Cassaniti answers these fundamental questions and more through an engaged ethnographic investigation of what it means to "e;remember the present"e; in a region strongly influenced by Buddhist thought.Focusing on Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar, Remembering the Present examines the meanings, practices, and purposes of mindfulness. Using the experiences of people in Buddhist monasteries, hospitals, markets, and homes in the region, Cassaniti shows how an attention to memory informs how people live today and how mindfulness is intimately tied to local constructions of time, affect, power, emotion, and selfhood. By looking at how these people incorporate Theravada Buddhism into their daily lives, Cassaniti provides a signal contribution to the psychological anthropology of religious experience.Remembering the Present heeds the call made by researchers in the psychological sciences and the Buddhist side of mindfulness studies for better understandings of what mindfulness is and can be. Cassaniti addresses fundamental questions about selfhood, identity, and how a deeper appreciation of the many contexts and complexities intrinsic in sati (mindfulness in the Pali language) can help people lead richer, fuller, and healthier lives. Remembering the Present shows how mindfulness needs to be understood within the cultural and historical influences from which it has emerged.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 20 b&w halftones, 1 map
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: anthropology of Buddhism • anthropology of religious experience • attention to memory • being mindful • buddhism practices • Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia • buddhist mindfulness • Buddhist side of mindfulness studies • comparative religions • ethnographic investigation of mindfulness • how to practice mindfulness • meanings of mindfulness • Mindfulness • mindfulness buddhism • mindfulness culture • mindfulness practice • mindfulness psychology • mindfulness selfhood • mindfulness society • Mindfulness Studies • practicing mindfulness • psychiatry, Theravada, Burma, Sri Lanka, Sati, temporality • purpose of mindfulness • Religious Studies • Southeast Asia buddhism • Southeast Asia buddhist practices • Southeast Asia culture • Southeast Asia mindfulness • Southeast Asian Theravada Buddhism • Southeast Asia Religion • Southeast Asia religious studies • Southeast Asia social studies • What is mindfulness
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-1416-3 / 1501714163
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-1416-0 / 9781501714160