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Buddhist insight meditation (Vipassanā) and Jon Kabat-Zinn's "Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction": an example of dedifferentiation of religion and medicine? 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Schlieter, Jens
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Taylor & Francis
  • 출판년도2017
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RELIGION
  • 발행사항Vol.32No.3[2017]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN1353-7903
  • 소개/요약For about 25 years, mindfulness meditation attracts growing attention. Developed in the context of a traditional Asian religious tradition, mindfulness meditation originally serves soteriological goals. In therapeutic settings, it has been claimed, it became a secular " consciousness technology ". So far, studies were mainly interested in clinical evidence for salutogenetic effects. Questions 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, of which the latter denotes a more " therapeutic " outlook. It will be argued that MBSR bears elements of salvetive, but also of salvific meditation. In the paradigm of a functional differentiation between " religion " and " biomedicine " , its presence in biomedical institutions seems to provide a counterexample, which will be discussed in the final section