Regina M. Janes

Inventing Afterlives

The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Life After Death

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Produktbeschreibung

Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions and contemporary literature and film as well as cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, Inventing Afterlives shows that in asking what happens after we die we define the worlds we inhabit and the values by which we live.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 230mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780231185714
• ISBN-10: 0231185715
• Artikelnr.: 50204634

Autorenporträt

Regina M. Janes

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Concerning the Present State of Life After Death
2. Impermanent Eternities: Egypt, Sumer and Babylon, Ancient Israel,
Greece, and Rome
3. Touring Asian Afterlives: Eternal Impermanence
4. Pursuing Happiness: How the Enlightenment Invented an Afterlife to Wish
For
5. Wandâfuru Raifu or Afterlife Inventions and Variations
Notes
Index