Reviews: Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra

Religious Therapeutics takes a masterful scholarly look at the relationship between the body, health and healing, and spirituality filtered through three traditional Hindu systems, Ayurveda, Patanjali's Classical Yoga, and Tantra. Author Gregory Fields,an associate professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville),divides the therapeutic focus into four general areas: religious meanings that inform the philosophy of health and medicine; the religious means of health and, conversely, health as a support to religious life; and religiousness itself as a cure for human suffering.