Rethinking ghosts in world religions /
The central theme of this volume is to re-examine the received concepts and images of ghosts in various religious cultures ranging from the Ancient Near East and Egypt to the Old Testament, the Classical Era, Early Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Early India, and Medieval China. As a religious phe...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
Series:
Numen Book Series
123.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.
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Call Number: BF1471 .R48 2009
| Summary: | The central theme of this volume is to re-examine the received concepts and images of ghosts in various religious cultures ranging from the Ancient Near East and Egypt to the Old Testament, the Classical Era, Early Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Early India, and Medieval China. As a religious phenomenon, the realm of ghosts has been less studied than the realm of the divine. Through a collaborative effort by scholars from different disciplines, this volume proposes a multi-cultural approach to construct a wider and complicated picture of the phenomenon of ghosts and spirits in human societies and to have a grasp of the various problems involved in understanding the phenomenon of ghost. |
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| Item Description: | Proceedings of a conference held in Dec. 2005. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-335) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047424840 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |