Imaginations of Death and the Beyond in India and Europe

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Blamberger, Günter (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kakar, Sudhir (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Moksha: On the Hindu Quest for Immortality Sudhir Kakar
• 2. Threshold-Images between Life and Death in Western Literature and Film Günter Blamberger
• 3. Illusions of Immortality Jonardon Ganeri
• 4. The quest for immortality as a technical problem. The idea of Cybergnosis and the visions of posthumanism Oliver Krüger
• 5. From biological to moral immortality: The transformation of the working class hero in communism Anja Kirsch
• 6. Images of Death and the Afterlife in India Naman Ahuja
• 7. Dream, Death and Death within a Dream Arindam Chakrabarti
• 8. The Afterworld as a Site of Punishment. Imagining Hell in European Literature Friedrich Vollhardt
• 9. The Afterlife of the Dead in this World: Ghosts, Art, and Poetry in German Modernism Georg Braungart
• 10. "Death-x-pulse": A Hermeneutics for Near-Death-Experiences Jens Schlieter
• 11. Paths to Nirvana? Hunger as Practice of Suicide Thomas Macho
• 12. Afterlife and Fertility in Varanasi Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar.