Jens Schlieter

What Is It Like to Be Dead?

Near-Death Experiences, Christianity, and the Occult

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Produktbeschreibung

What is it Like to be Dead? offers the first full account of the modern genealogy of "near-death experiences," focusing on the functions of these experiences in the religious field of Western modernity. Emerging as autobiographical narratives, they were used in Christian, esoteric, and spiritist-occult traditions as substantial proof for the survival of death, or the claim that the soul is able to leave the body. Now widely disseminated, they serve functionsranging from reassurance that religious experience is still possible to evidence for the transcultural validity of afterlife beliefs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 169mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 637g
• ISBN-13: 9780190888848
• ISBN-10: 0190888849
• Artikelnr.: 51771961

Autorenporträt

Jens Schlieter (Ph.D. University of Bonn, Germany) is Professor of the Systematic Study of Religion and Co-Director of the Institute for the Science of Religion, University of Bern, Switzerland. His publications comprise contributions on methodological and theoretical questions of the study of religion, on Buddhist bioethics, and comparative philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* Outline of the Argument and Remarks on Method
* Chapter I: Near-death experiences as Religious Discourse
* Chapter II: The Different Strands of Death: Western Discourse on
Experiences Near Death (1580-1975)
* Chapter III: "Near-death experiences" as Religious Protest against
Materialism and Modern Medicine in the 1960s and 1970s
* Chapter IV: Wish Fulfilling Expectations, Experiences, Retroactive
Imputations - In Search of Hermeneutics for Near-death Experiences"
* Bibliography