Author : James George Frazer
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Ancestor worship
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Author : Maurice Cowling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521545174
A further contribution to understanding the role played by Christianity in modern English thought.
Author : Mark Sandy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1000295478
This volume reflects on the ghostly and its varied manifestations including the uncanny, the revenant, the echo, and other forms of artistic allusion. These unsettling presences of the spectral other occur in literature, history, film, and art. The ghostly (and its artistic, literary, filmic, and cultural representations) remains of burgeoning interest and debate to twenty-first century literary critics, cultural historians, art historians, and linguists. Our collection of essays considers the wider implications of these representations of the ghostly and notions of the spectral to define a series of different, but inter-related, cultural topics (concerned with questions of ageing, the uncanny, the spectral, spiritualism, eschatology), which imaginatively testify to our compulsion to search for evidence of the ghostly in our everyday encounters with the material world.
Author : Allan Kellehear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2007-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1139461427
Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as otherworld journey to the contemporary Cosmopolitan Age of dying in nursing homes, Allan Kellehear takes the reader on a 2 million year journey of discovery that covers the major challenges we will all eventually face: anticipating, preparing, taming and timing for our eventual deaths. This book, first published in 2007, is a major review of the human and clinical sciences literature about human dying conduct. The historical approach of this book places our recent images of cancer dying and medical care in broader historical, epidemiological and global context. Professor Kellehear argues that we are witnessing a rise in shameful forms of dying. It is not cancer, heart disease or medical science that presents modern dying conduct with its greatest moral tests, but rather poverty, ageing and social exclusion.
Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2020-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752324929
Reproduction of the original: The Belief in Inmortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release :
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Author : John Hick
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664255091
In this cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study, John Hick draws upon major world religions, as well as biology, psychology, parapsychology, anthropology, and philosophy, to explore the mystery of death. He argues that scientific and philosophical objections to the idea of survival after death can be challenged, and he claims that human inadequacy in facing suffering supports the basic religious argument for immortality.
Author : Hill/Hageman
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081305575X
Contributors to this landmark volume demonstrate that ancestor veneration was about much more than claiming property rights: the spirits of the dead were central to domestic disputes, displays of wealth, and power and status relationships. Case studies from China, Africa, Europe, and Mesoamerica use the evidence of art, architecture, ritual, and burial practices to explore the complex roles of ancestors in the past. Including a comprehensive overview of nearly two hundred years of anthropological research, The Archaeology of Ancestors reveals how and why societies remember and revere the dead. Through analyses of human remains, ritual deposits, and historical documents, contributors explain how ancestors were woven into the social fabric of the living.
Author : Christopher M Moreman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317528875
Few issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains, to defining death, to suggesting what happens after life. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying provides readers with an overview of the study of death and dying. Questions of death, mortality, and more recently of end-of-life care, have long been important ones and scholars from a range of fields have approached the topic in a number of ways. Comprising over fifty-two chapters from a team of international contributors, the companion covers: funerary and mourning practices; concepts of the afterlife; psychical issues associated with death and dying; clinical and ethical issues; philosophical issues; death and dying as represented in popular culture. This comprehensive collection of essays will bring together perspectives from fields as diverse as history, philosophy, literature, psychology, archaeology and religious studies, while including various religious traditions, including established religions like Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism as well as new or less widely known traditions such as the Spiritualist Movement, the Church of Latter Day Saints, and Raëlianism. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, philosophy and literature.
Author : Sir James George Frazer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2018-07-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781722339616
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Volume 3 By Sir James George Frazer The principal groups of islands included in Polynesia are New Zealand, the Friendly or Tonga Islands, the Samoan or Navigators Islands, the Hervey or Cook Islands, the Society Islands, including Tahiti, the Marquesas Islands, and Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands.[10] All of them, except New Zealand, are within the tropics; and all of them, except Hawaii, lie to the south of the equator. I shall deal with them in the order I have mentioned, beginning with New Zealand. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
