The Psychologisation of Eastern Spiritual Traditions: Colonisation, Translation and Commodification

by Elliot Cohen

Book Overview

This essential book critically examines the various ways in which Eastern spiritual traditions have been typically stripped of their spiritual roots, content and context, to be more readily assimilated into secular Western frames of Psychology.

Beginning with the colonial histories of Empire, the author draws from the 1960s Counterculture and the subsequent romanticising and idealising of the East. Cohen explores how Hindu, Buddhist and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367375362
• ISBN13: 9780367375362
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"