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Psychological Method

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Hinduism and Tribal Religions

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Adhyātma; Interpretation

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Psychological method as applied to Hinduism and other Indian religious traditions is a method of philosophic inquiry into the actual nature of religious experience from the adhyātma perspective.

Psychological Method as an application of Adhyātma Perspective

Psychological method (PsM) is a method of philosophical inquiry into the actual nature of experience. As a method it puts any problem into the context of individual experience and aims at forming models, schemas, and presentations that have individual experiencing as their integral part that provides unity, synthesis, and meaning. It is closely related to phenomenological method, although it differs from it in pursuing particular experiences, while the phenomenological method operates with the types of experiences. It shall be pointed out that the name “psychological method” is not the best name for the method since it makes an allusion to psyche, that is, to Greek (Plato’s Phaedoor...

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  1. Idaho Springs, CO, USA

    Dmitri Semenov Ph.D

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  1. Dept of Anthropology, The University of North Texas Dept of Anthropology, Denton, Texas, USA

    Pankaj Jain

  2. The Graduate Theological Union , Berkeley, California, USA

    Rita Sherma

  3. Jamia Millia Islamia, Centre for the Study of Comparative Reli Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

    Madhu Khanna

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Semenov, D. (2018). Psychological Method. In: Jain, P., Sherma, R., Khanna, M. (eds) Hinduism and Tribal Religions. Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1036-5_35-1

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