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Meditation in Religion and Science

Course Level Format
Instructor & Institution
James W. Jones, Rutgers University
Course Term & Year
Spring 2007
A 2007 course by James Jones at Rutgers University explores "some of the religious, psychological and psycho-physiological dimensions of meditation. Students will be exposed to the mediational practices and models of human selfhood from three different religious traditions — Hinduism, Christianity, and Buddhism — and several relevant and controversial areas in contemporary psychology and psychophysiology."