Rethinking ghosts in world religions /

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Main Author: Pu, Muzhou (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Series: Studies in the history of religions ; 123.

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Call Number: BF1471 .R48 2009

Table of Contents:
  • Wind and smoke : giving up the ghost of Enkidu, comprehending Enkidu's ghosts / Jerrold S. Cooper
  • Belief and the dead in Pharaonic Egypt / Christopher J. Eyre
  • Where have all the ghosts gone? : evolution of a concept in biblical literature / Sze-kar Wan
  • Ghosts and responsibility : the Hebrew Bible, Confucius, Plato / Steven Shankman
  • The Roman manes : the dead as gods / Charles W. King
  • The ghostly troop and the battle over death : William of Auvergne (d. 1249) connects Christian, Old Norse, and Irish views / Alan E. Bernstein
  • Ghosts of the European Enlightenment / Fernando Vidal
  • Ghost, vampire, and scientific naturalism : observation and evidence in the supernatural fiction of Grant Allen, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle / Shang-jen Li
  • The cult of Vetāla and Tantric fantasy / Po-chi Huang
  • The culture of ghosts in the Six Dynasties period (c. 220-589 C.E.) / Mu-chou Poo
  • Allegorical narrative in Six Dynasties anomaly tales : ghostly sightings and afterworld vengeance / Yuan-ju Liu
  • Chinese ghosts : reconciling psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxian perspectives / P. Steven Sangren.