Spirituality and Indian Psychology Lessons from the Bhagavad-Gita /

• Main Author: Bhawuk, Dharm P.S (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: International and Cultural Psychology,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.

In recent years, globalization, multiculturalism, and Western interest in Eastern thought have contributed to the growth of cross-cultural psychology. Paradoxically, however, while spirituality plays such a major role in non-Western cultures, it tends to occupy only a minor area of cross-cultural re...

Table of Contents:

• - The Global Need for Indigenous Psychology
• Spirituality in India: The Ever Growing Banyan Tree
• Model Building from Cultural Insights
• Indian Concept of Self
• The Paths of Bondage and Liberation
• A Process Model of Desire
• A General Model of Peace and Happiness
• Indian Theory of Work
• Epistemology and Ontology of Indian Psychology
• Toward a New Paradigm of Psychology
• Summary and Implications.