"In The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, Michael Martin and Keith Augustine collect a series of contributions that redress this imbalance in the literature by providing a strong, comprehensive, and up-to-date casebook of the chief arguments against an aft…
"In The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, Michael Martin and Keith Augustine collect a series of contributions that redress this imbalance in the literature by providing a strong, comprehensive, and up-to-date casebook of the chief arguments against an aft…
"This book examines research relevant to the question of life after death, drawing together the observations of social science regarding such phenomena as reincarnation, possession, and apparitions. It considers possibilities including survival of consciousness and survival of p…
"This book examines research relevant to the question of life after death, drawing together the observations of social science regarding such phenomena as reincarnation, possession, and apparitions. It considers possibilities including survival of consciousness and survival of p…
"In modern Western culture, there is both a universal interest in and immense confusion about traditional and contemporary concepts of afterlife. New Age ideologies have combined with a general shift from dogmatic creedal religions to result in organizations that emphasize being…
"In modern Western culture, there is both a universal interest in and immense confusion about traditional and contemporary concepts of afterlife. New Age ideologies have combined with a general shift from dogmatic creedal religions to result in organizations that emphasize being…
The Tibetan book of living and dying
by Harvey, Andrew, Sogyal,, Rinpoche, Gaffney, Patrick
Dualities -- The splitting of Herakles -- The roadmap -- Proserpina's tapestry, Strabo's cloak -- Cosmos -- The cloak of stars -- Soul music -- Intermezzo -- Plato's soulscapes -- Interplanetary harmonies -- A sprinkling of science -- The lyre and the cloak -- To the sky -- The …
"This book is a tour of afterlife landscapes from Homer to Dante. It argues that the topography of the afterlife in Greek and Roman tradition, and in Dante, reflects the state of "scientific" knowledge at the time of the various contexts in which we find it, and the landscape of…
The Muslim afterworld, with its imagery rich in sensual promises, has shaped Western perceptions of Islam for centuries. However, to date, no single study has done justice to the full spectrum of traditions of thinking about the topic in Islamic history. The Muslim hell, in part…
"The Muslim afterworld, with its imagery rich in sensual promises, has shaped Western perceptions of Islam for centuries. However, to date, no single study has done justice to the full spectrum of traditions of thinking about the topic in Islamic history. The Muslim hell, in par…
"The Muslim afterworld, with its imagery rich in sensual promises, has shaped Western perceptions of Islam for centuries. However, to date, no single study has done justice to the full spectrum of traditions of thinking about the topic in Islamic history. The Muslim hell, in par…
In this book, Paul Crittenden offers a critical guide to the problematic origins of biblical teaching about the afterlife and the way in which it was subsequently developed by Church authorities and theologians-Origen, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas in particular. In the post-Ref…