Glen Alexander Hayes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3959429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glen Alexander Hayes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glen Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Hayes |
| SIGNATURE | HAYES G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bloomfield College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tantric Studies: Issues, Methods, and Scholarly Collaborations
This introductory chapter addresses ongoing academic debates regarding the origins and earliest forms of tantra, as well as defining it and methodologies for its study. Did it begin as a movement within Hinduism, or Buddhism, or perhaps in some less-documented “pre-tantric” traditions, and what were the interactions between traditions? And what about “tantra” as a category term, regarding which there are a diversity of scholarly opinions. Any stu…
Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies
Esoteric Physiology and Subtle Body Systems
In this chapter, the author considers some of the numerous systems of esoteric physiology to be found in Hindu and Buddhist tantra—often known as the “yogic body” or “subtle body.” This alternative body has been construed in many different ways in tantric traditions, but it is typically of an esoteric nature, is accessed and inhabited via initiation and other ritual processes, is connected to breathing processes, reveals secret knowledge and magi…
Exploring Metaphors and Conceptual Blending in Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Texts
This chapter will explore an important seventeenth-century Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā text on transgressive ritual practices and visualization involving the divine body (deva-deha): the Amṛtaratnāvalī (Necklace of Immortality) of Mukunda-dāsa. Because the Bengali language used in this text is largely uninflected and enigmatic, and there are no extant written commentaries to guide its study, the chapter will demonstrate how approaching the translation base…
Cognitive Historiography: Perception, Construal, and Context
The essays in this issue of the Journal of Cognitive Historiography explore a variety of developing methodologies in the field, taking us on a tour through a range of cognitive and cultural contexts in East and South Asia, the Middle East, and modern America. Although there are a number of ways to consider the goals of cognitive historiography, the essays in this issue are all engaged in a scholarly pursuit of historical minds, seeking to uncover…
Possible Selves, Body Schemas, and Sādhana: Using Cognitive Science and Neuroscience in the Study of Medieval Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Hindu Tantric Texts
In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies for the study of religion and human consciousness. Foremost among these are a collection of approaches often termed the “cognitive science of religion” (CSR), typically drawing on cognitive science, neuroscience, linguistics, and contemporary metaphor theory. Although we are still “early” in this enterprise, I hope to show how a meaningful dialogu…
The Guru’s Tongue
This essay explores the nature of religious language and uses of conceptual metaphors in an important branch of medieval Bengali Hinduism known as the Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā traditions which practiced a form of esoteric tantric yoga involving a series of external rituals, internalized visualizations, a special mystical language, and a rejection of the norms of Hindu caste and ritual purity. Developing after the time of the great Bengali devotional lea…
"Introduction to "Cognitive Science and the Study of Yoga and Tantra
The range of disciplines known as the Cognitive Science of Religions (CSR), which has emerged in recent decades, embraces many areas and specializations within the Academy, including cognitive science, linguistics, neuroscience, and religious studies
Possible Selves, Body Schemas, and Sādhana: Using Cognitive Science and Neuroscience in the Study of Medieval Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Hindu Tantric Texts
In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies for the study of religion and human consciousness. Foremost among these are a collection of approaches often termed the "cognitive science of religion" (CSR), typically drawing on cognitive science, neuroscience, linguistics, and contemporary metaphor theory. Although we are still "early" in this enterprise, I hope to show how a meaningful dialogu…
The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy, and Power in Colonial Bengal . Hugh B. Urban
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India. David Gordon White
Possible Selves, Body Schemas, and Sādhana: Using Cognitive Science and Neuroscience in the Study of Medieval Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Hindu Tantric Texts
In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies for the study of religion and human consciousness. Foremost among these are a collection of approaches often termed the "cognitive science of religion" (CSR), typically drawing on cognitive science, neuroscience, linguistics, and contemporary metaphor theory. Although we are still "early" in this enterprise, I hope to show how a meaningful dialogu…
"Introduction to "Cognitive Science and the Study of Yoga and Tantra
The range of disciplines known as the Cognitive Science of Religions (CSR), which has emerged in recent decades, embraces many areas and specializations within the Academy, including cognitive science, linguistics, neuroscience, and religious studies
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India. David Gordon White
The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy, and Power in Colonial Bengal . Hugh B. Urban
Possible Selves, Body Schemas, and Sādhana: Using Cognitive Science and Neuroscience in the Study of Medieval Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Hindu Tantric Texts
In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies for the study of religion and human consciousness. Foremost among these are a collection of approaches often termed the "cognitive science of religion" (CSR), typically drawing on cognitive science, neuroscience, linguistics, and contemporary metaphor theory. Although we are still "early" in this enterprise, I hope to show how a meaningful dialogu…
"Introduction to "Cognitive Science and the Study of Yoga and Tantra
The range of disciplines known as the Cognitive Science of Religions (CSR), which has emerged in recent decades, embraces many areas and specializations within the Academy, including cognitive science, linguistics, neuroscience, and religious studies
The Guru’s Tongue
This essay explores the nature of religious language and uses of conceptual metaphors in an important branch of medieval Bengali Hinduism known as the Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā traditions which practiced a form of esoteric tantric yoga involving a series of external rituals, internalized visualizations, a special mystical language, and a rejection of the norms of Hindu caste and ritual purity. Developing after the time of the great Bengali devotional lea…
Possible Selves, Body Schemas, and Sādhana: Using Cognitive Science and Neuroscience in the Study of Medieval Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Hindu Tantric Texts
In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies for the study of religion and human consciousness. Foremost among these are a collection of approaches often termed the “cognitive science of religion” (CSR), typically drawing on cognitive science, neuroscience, linguistics, and contemporary metaphor theory. Although we are still “early” in this enterprise, I hope to show how a meaningful dialogu…
Cognitive Historiography: Perception, Construal, and Context
The essays in this issue of the Journal of Cognitive Historiography explore a variety of developing methodologies in the field, taking us on a tour through a range of cognitive and cultural contexts in East and South Asia, the Middle East, and modern America. Although there are a number of ways to consider the goals of cognitive historiography, the essays in this issue are all engaged in a scholarly pursuit of historical minds, seeking to uncover…
Esoteric Physiology and Subtle Body Systems
In this chapter, the author considers some of the numerous systems of esoteric physiology to be found in Hindu and Buddhist tantra—often known as the “yogic body” or “subtle body.” This alternative body has been construed in many different ways in tantric traditions, but it is typically of an esoteric nature, is accessed and inhabited via initiation and other ritual processes, is connected to breathing processes, reveals secret knowledge and magi…
Exploring Metaphors and Conceptual Blending in Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Texts
This chapter will explore an important seventeenth-century Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā text on transgressive ritual practices and visualization involving the divine body (deva-deha): the Amṛtaratnāvalī (Necklace of Immortality) of Mukunda-dāsa. Because the Bengali language used in this text is largely uninflected and enigmatic, and there are no extant written commentaries to guide its study, the chapter will demonstrate how approaching the translation base…
Tantric Studies: Issues, Methods, and Scholarly Collaborations
This introductory chapter addresses ongoing academic debates regarding the origins and earliest forms of tantra, as well as defining it and methodologies for its study. Did it begin as a movement within Hinduism, or Buddhism, or perhaps in some less-documented “pre-tantric” traditions, and what were the interactions between traditions? And what about “tantra” as a category term, regarding which there are a diversity of scholarly opinions. Any stu…
Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies
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