Handbook of Mindfulness

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This handbook explores mindfulness philosophy and practice as it functions in today’s socioeconomic, cultural, and political landscape. Chapters discuss the many ways in which classic concepts and practices of mindfulness clash, converge, and influence modern theories and methods, and vice versa. Experts across many disciplines address the secularization and commercialization of Buddhist concepts, the medicalizing of mindfulness in therapies, and progressive uses of mindfulness in education. The book addresses the rise of the, “mindfulness movement”, and the core concerns behind the critiques of the growing popularity of mindfulness. It covers a range of dichotomies, such as traditional versus modern, religious versus secular, and commodification versus critical thought and probes beyond the East/West binary to larger questions of economics, philosophy, ethics, and, ultimately, meaning.
Featured topics include:

• A compilation of Buddhist meditative practices.
• Selling mindfulness and the marketing of mindful products.
  
• A meta-critique of mindfulness critiques - from McMindfulness to critical mindfulness
  
• Mindfulness-based interventions in clinical psychology and neuroscience.
  
• Corporate mindfulness and usage in the workplace.
  
• Community-engaged mindfulness and its role in social justice.

Examines mindfulness theory and practice in broad historical and cultural contexts

Explores manifestations of mindfulness across health care, education, neuroscience, and business

Addresses influences of cultural assumptions, institutional structures, economic systems, and political forces

Presents a transdisciplinary perspective across such fields as educational counseling, social psychology, management and business

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Ronald E. Purser

Themen in »Handbook of Mindfulness«

Buddhism mindfulness Buddhist meditative practices Capitalism and mindfulness Clinical mindfulness Compassion in corporations Contemplative neuroscience and culture Corporate mindfulness Critical Buddhism Ethics and mindfulness Mindfulness and education Mindfulness and trauma Mindfulness education Mindfulness in a corporate context Mindfulness in schools Psychotherapy and mindfulness

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