1st Edition
Mind, Soul and Consciousness Religion, Science and the Psy-Disciplines in Modern South Asia (With a Foreword by J.N. Mohanty)
Jitendra Nath Mohanty
1. Mind, soul, and consciousness: religion, science, and the psy disciplines in modern South Asia
Christopher Harding
2. The science of the self (ātmavidyā): the reconfigurations of Vedāntic gnosis in Hindu modernities
Ankur Barua
3. Consciousness and relativity: anekāntavāda and its role in Jaina epistemology
Jeffery D. Long
4. Recovering wisdom of the ‘ancient rishis’: Girindrasekhar Bose, Indra Sen, and the psy-disciplines in modern India
Soumen Mukherjee
5. Self-reflection and projection in Jungian ‘spirituality’: Carl Gustav Jung’s encounter with India and his critique of Indian psy-sciences
Claudia Richter
6. Music, emotions and reform in South Asian Islam: perspectives from the eighteenth to the twentieth century
M. Sajjad Alam Rizvi
Epilogue
Soumen Mukherjee
Biography
Soumen Mukherjee teaches History at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. His research interests lie widely in the fields of socio-religious and intellectual history of modern South Asia. He has published in these fields and is the author of Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia: Community and Identity in the Age of Religious Internationals (2017).
Christopher Harding is Senior Lecturer in Asian History at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His published work includes Japan Story: In Search of a Nation (2018), Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan (co-edited collection; 2014), and Religious Transformation in South Asia: The Meaning of Conversion in Colonial Punjab (2008).
