Chapter
Chapter 1 Contemplative Studies
An Emerging Interdisciplinary Field
Toward a (Meta) History of the Field
Programs, Organizations, and Venues
Chapter 2 Contemplative Practice
Terminology and Characteristics
Types of Contemplative Practice
Dimensions of Contemplative Practice
Chapter 3 Contemplative Experience
Varieties of Contemplative Experience
Darks Nights and Spiritual Emergencies
Chapter 4 Contemplative Traditions
Tradition, Traditioning, and Traditionalization
Contemplative Strains of Religious Traditions
Chapter 5 Contemplative Pedagogy
Chapter 6 Interpretive Approaches
Contextualization and Identity
Toward Interdisciplinarity and Multidisciplinarity
Approaches to Contemplative Practice
Approaches to Contemplative Experience
Power, Prestige, and Privilege
“Therapeutic Meditation” and “Contemplative Science”
Meditation as a New Religious Movement
Cognitive Imperialism and Spiritual Colonialism
Chapter 8 Future Prospects
Putting the Contemplative (Back) into Contemplative Studies
Autoethnography, Alterity, and Intersubjectivity
Contemplative Resistance and Contemplative Engagement
Introducing Contemplative Studies
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