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Meditation in Religion and Science

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Instructor: James W. Jones
Institution: Rutgers University

Course Term: Spring
Course Year: 2007

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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.”