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Mindfulness, Buddhist Modernity and Cultural Psychology.

Bo Allesøe Christensen

Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science June 6, 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s12124-024-09852-w (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed
Topics Buddhism Meditation
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Key points Argues that understanding mindfulness requires tracing its historical decoupling from religious roots and its Western appropriation, and that cultural psychology should approach phenomena with context-sensibility and awareness of disciplinary parochialism.

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I will in this article use Fircks as a point of departure for trying to understand the complexities involved in the use of the concept of mindfulness. As will be seen, mindfulness can be traced to a decoupling from a religious background and subsequent appropriation within several Western contexts. This will then be used for a discussion of how to deal with the historicity of the phenomena studied within cultural psychology. Here two reminders will be suggested, namely understanding phenomena through a context-sensibility and at the same time being aware of any disciplinary parochialism.

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