Imaginations of Death and the Beyond in India and Europe

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Blamberger, Günter (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kakar, Sudhir (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Ethnology.; Psychology and religion.; Religions.; Cultural Anthropology.; Religion and Psychology.; Comparative Religion.

This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and Western traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest and most fundamental uncertainty of human existence---the awareness of human mortality, on which depend...