Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West, edited by Geoffrey Samuel and Jay Johnston, is an academic essay collection bringing together specialists in South Asian, Chinese and Western esoteric traditions to compare how different cultures have conceived internal subtle anatomy, from chakras to qi to the astral body. Its strength is genuinely comparative range, assembled by editors with recognized standing in religious studies and the anthropology of the body. As an edited volume, its authority varies chapter by chapter with each contributor's own specialization, and the book's comparative framing is itself an interpretive choice about how far genuinely distinct traditions can be usefully set alongside one another, a methodological question the editors address directly rather than treating as settled.
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Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West, edited by Geoffrey Samuel and Jay Johnston and published by Routledge, is an academic essay collection assembled by editors with recognized standing in religious studies, treated at the top tier as academic press scholarship, notwithstanding that as an edited volume its authority varies chapter by chapter with each contributor's own specialization. NotesScholarly edited volume on subtle-body concepts across Asian and Western traditions; documents modern Theosophy's adaptation of the Indian koshas and subtle-body teaching into the aura model.
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AuthorGeoffrey Samuel and Jay Johnston (eds.)
PublisherRoutledge
Publication Year2013
Source TypeEdited volume
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