Description
About the Author
Rev. Wakoh Shannon Hickey, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Notre Dame of Maryland University. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and previously worked as a journalist, editor, and corporate trainer. She is also a professional chaplain, a priest of Soto Zen Buddhism, and a certified leader of InterPlay (R). She enjoys research, teaching, contemplative practice, interfaith engagement, and flying stunt kites.
Reviews
Mind Cure provides a carefully researched religious history of meditation-as-medicine that explains the developmental roots of mindfulness in the American religious landscape... * Kin Cheung, Moravian CollegeBethlehem, PA 18018, Religious Studies Review *
Mind Cure... is a very important contribution to the growing body of work that focuses on the history of meditation-as-medicine and will appeal to both scholars of religion and teachers and practitioners of meditation. * Anna Lutkajtis, The University of Sydney, Journal of Religious History *
Wakoh Shannon Hickey provides the most in-depth historical treatment ... Her personal, professional, and academic experience at the intersection of Buddhism and health care informs her work ... It is a unique and important contribution of her work that Hickey is able to show that the American reception of meditation involved such a diverse range of practitioners ... provide[s] a comprehensive overview of the history and contemporary practice of meditation in America, emphasizing the important roles that mental health and well-being have played in that story. * C. Pierce Salguero, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190864248
Author Wakoh Shannon Hickey
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 635g
Dimensions(mm) 157mm * 239mm * 33mm