Rethinking ghosts in world religions /

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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Other Authors: Pu, Muzhou.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Series: Numen Book Series 123.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

Subjects:

Geschichte
Geesten.
Godsdiensten.
Spoken
Esprits.
Fantômes.
Geister
Religion populaire.
Weltreligion
Ghosts > Congresses.

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Call Number: BF1471 .R48 2009

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Materials /
  • Mu-chou Poo
  • Introduction /
  • Mu-chou Poo
  • 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 By /
  • Yuan-ju Liu
  • Chinese Ghosts: Reconciling Psychoanalytic, Structuralist, And Marxian Perspectives /
  • P. Steven Sangren
  • Bibliography /
  • Mu-chou Poo
  • Index /
  • Mu-chou Poo.