Cognitive Science and the Study of Yoga and Tantra

Dear Colleagues,

Focus: The pan-Asian traditions of Yoga and Tantra have developed their own forms of psychology, consciousness theories, textual and sociological lineages, and extensive ritual systems—all of which provide fascinating examples for the study of various cognitive processes. Imagination, conceptual integration, metaphor and metonymy, pattern recognition, memory studies, and self-consciousness are frequent subjects in the classical study of Yoga and Tantra. However, studying these complex traditions using recent methods and insights from Cognitive Science will not only advance the study of Yoga and Tantra; it will provide cognitive scientists with new examples and tools to advance their own emerging theories and methods.

Purpose: Religious traditions, particularly Yoga and Tantra, have much to offer to scholars seeking to better understand human nature. However, until quite recently, Yoga and Tantra have largely been studied from the perspectives of traditional disciplines, such as the history of religions, sociology, anthropology, and linguistics. The cognitive dimensions and processes of Yoga and Tantra have not been sufficiently examined using the many disciplines allied with Cognitive Science. The purpose of this volume is to engage this coming together of studies of Yoga and Tantra with the range of Cognitive Sciences, providing fresh insights into these rich expressions of human creativity and experience.

Relation to existing literature: This proposed issue is unlike any existing volume, although it grows out of recent research and publications of the co-editors and other colleagues (see References). It is unlike mainstream approaches to the study of Yoga and Tantra, and will provide a venue for cognitive scientists and scholars of Yoga and Tantra to share their research, methods, and insights. Hopefully, this will lead to entirely new fields of cognitive science and the study of religion.

Prof. Dr. Glen A. Hayes
Prof. Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Guest Editor

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