Author : James George Frazer
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Ancestor worship
ISBN :
Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 959 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN :
In 'The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead' by James George Frazer, the renowned anthropologist explores the universal belief in an afterlife and the rituals associated with honoring deceased ancestors. Written in a scholarly and comprehensive style, Frazer delves into various cultures, traditions, and historical practices to examine the continuity and evolution of beliefs surrounding death. Drawing on a wide range of ethnographic data, this book provides a profound insight into the human psyche and the ways in which different societies navigate the concept of mortality. Frazer's meticulous research and comparative analysis offer valuable perspectives on the significance of ancestor worship in shaping cultural identities and religious practices. Through his interdisciplinary approach, Frazer sheds light on the complexities of human spirituality and the enduring relevance of ancestral veneration in contemporary societies. Readers interested in anthropology, religious studies, and the history of belief systems will find this book enlightening and thought-provoking.
Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 375237926X
Reproduction of the original: The Belief in Inmortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer
Author : J.G Frazer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752312912
Reproduction of the original: The Belief in Inmortality and the Worship of the Dead by J.G Frazer
Author : James George Frazer
Publisher :
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Author : John Hick
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 11,74 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 : Mark Sandy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 32,16 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 : Maurice Cowling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521545174
A further contribution to understanding the role played by Christianity in modern English thought.
Author : James Baird
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1421435640
Originally published in 1956. In Ishmael, Professor James Baird responds to the increasing secularization of Western civilization and the creation of what he calls "authentic primitivism." For Baird, the aesthetic austerity of Protestantism undermined the structure of symbols created by Catholicism. In the absence of a meaningful structure of cultural authority in Western civilization, "primary art" took on a quasi-religious role by connecting humans to a transcendent being. Ishmael describes a new system of art, beginning around 1850, that supplanted Christian symbolism. Baird examines writers who helped to create a modern authentic primitivism, with emphasis on Herman Melville, whom Baird sees as a locus of change for the cultural significance of primary art. Baird provides a social history and biography of writers who participated in the primary art movement from 1850 to 1950
Author : Allan Kellehear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 50,80 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.
