Jens Schlieter

Gebundenes Buch

What Is It Like to Be Dead?

Near-Death Experiences, Christianity, and the Occult

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

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