Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries
Ioannis Gaitanidis, Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira, Avery Morrow, Sang-yun Han (eds)
- Title
- Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries
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- € 133,99
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- 9789048559022
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- Number of pages
- 302
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 25 - 02 - 2025
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- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Discipline
- Asian Studies
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List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Note on naming, use of italics and other conventions
Therapy, Spirituality and East Asian Imaginaries: An Introduction
Section 1: Circulation of ‘East Asian’ Concepts
Chapter 1: How Qi Became Energy: Parapsychology, Soviet Science and Chinese Acupuncture in the 1970s
Chapter 2: Finding Kyo in Shiatsu Spaces: Sensing the Global Movement of Embodied Knowledge
Chapter 3: Capturing the Moment of Kimochi-ii: Transnational Flows and the Transformation of Qigong in Japan
Section 2: Circulation of Therapeutic Narratives
Chapter 4: Five-Element Acupuncture in 1960-80s Britain: In Pursuit of Alternative Treatment with Body-Mind-Spirit
Chapter 5: From Eden to Aquarius: ‘Oriental Medicine’, Natural Healing and the Market of Self-Care Books in Brazil in the 1970s
Chapter 6: Buddhist Self-Help Healing Narratives and the Meditative Turn
Section 3: Alternative Therapies Across Epistemic Fields and Professions
Chapter 7: A Collaboration Between Mother and Baby: Sophrology in a Japanese Maternity Clinic and the Making of Medical Knowledge
Chapter 8: The Influence of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Brazilian Naturology
Chapter 9: Constructing a Modern Esoteric Buddhist Breath Therapy
Section 4: Alternative Therapies and National Identities
Chapter 10: Ki Sury.n in South Korea: Reclaiming the Term Pigwahakch.k (Unscientific) to Challenge Scientific Supremacy
Chapter 11: Nationalism and the Legitimacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Macau: Colonial Legacy and Contemporary Imaginaries
Acknowledgements
Note on naming, use of italics and other conventions
Therapy, Spirituality and East Asian Imaginaries: An Introduction
Section 1: Circulation of ‘East Asian’ Concepts
Chapter 1: How Qi Became Energy: Parapsychology, Soviet Science and Chinese Acupuncture in the 1970s
Chapter 2: Finding Kyo in Shiatsu Spaces: Sensing the Global Movement of Embodied Knowledge
Chapter 3: Capturing the Moment of Kimochi-ii: Transnational Flows and the Transformation of Qigong in Japan
Section 2: Circulation of Therapeutic Narratives
Chapter 4: Five-Element Acupuncture in 1960-80s Britain: In Pursuit of Alternative Treatment with Body-Mind-Spirit
Chapter 5: From Eden to Aquarius: ‘Oriental Medicine’, Natural Healing and the Market of Self-Care Books in Brazil in the 1970s
Chapter 6: Buddhist Self-Help Healing Narratives and the Meditative Turn
Section 3: Alternative Therapies Across Epistemic Fields and Professions
Chapter 7: A Collaboration Between Mother and Baby: Sophrology in a Japanese Maternity Clinic and the Making of Medical Knowledge
Chapter 8: The Influence of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Brazilian Naturology
Chapter 9: Constructing a Modern Esoteric Buddhist Breath Therapy
Section 4: Alternative Therapies and National Identities
Chapter 10: Ki Sury.n in South Korea: Reclaiming the Term Pigwahakch.k (Unscientific) to Challenge Scientific Supremacy
Chapter 11: Nationalism and the Legitimacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Macau: Colonial Legacy and Contemporary Imaginaries
Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries
In the context of modern global exchanges, an imagined and essentialised
notion of ‘East Asia’ has served as both a source of inspiration and a catalyst
for new connections, extending beyond the geographic boundaries of China,
Japan, and Korea. This volume explores the global circulation of practices,
technologies, and ideas identified as ‘East Asian’ in alternative therapies and
spiritual practices since the 1970s. Case studies range from the incorporation of
traditional Chinese medicine into Brazilian naturopathy to self-development
seminars promoting Korean national identity. Rather than focusing on
questions of authenticity, the book uniquely interrogates how and why the
cultures of China, Japan, and Korea have been invoked over the last fifty years
to promote specific therapeutic, spiritual, and political agendas worldwide.
Editors
Ioannis Gaitanidis
Ioannis Gaitanidis is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Global
and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University (Japan). He is the author of
Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? (2022).
Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira
Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira is a D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University
of Cambridge. He is a global historian of science, medicine, and religion in
China, with extended interests in the histories of psychology and alternative
medicine in modern East Asia and South America.
Avery Morrow
Avery Morrow is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at Brown University.
His research broadly covers new religious movements and occultism in Japan
from 1868 through the present day. He is currently finishing a major research
project on the integration of a popular faith healing movement into modern
Shinto ideology.
Sang-yun Han
Sangyun Han is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of International
Cultural Studies, Tohoku University. Her research focuses on the history of
modern Japanese religion, especially the relationship between the ‘Occult
Boom’ of the 1970s and Japanese esoteric Buddhism. She has recently published
“Historicizing the (Oc)cultic Milieu: Mikky. in 1970s Japan” (Religious Studies
in Japan volume 7, 2024).
