Rethinking ghosts in world religions /

Rethinking ghosts in world religions / edited by Mu-chou Poo. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009. - 1 online resource (xvi, 342 pages) - Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, v. 123 0169-8834 ; . - Studies in the history of religions ; 123. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-335) and index.

Wind and smoke : giving up the ghost of Enkidu, comprehending Enkidu's ghosts / Belief and the dead in Pharaonic Egypt / Where have all the ghosts gone? : evolution of a concept in biblical literature / Ghosts and responsibility : the Hebrew Bible, Confucius, Plato / The Roman manes : the dead as gods / The ghostly troop and the battle over death : William of Auvergne (d. 1249) connects Christian, Old Norse, and Irish views / Ghosts of the European Enlightenment / Ghost, vampire, and scientific naturalism : observation and evidence in the supernatural fiction of Grant Allen, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle / The cult of Vetāla and Tantric fantasy / The culture of ghosts in the Six Dynasties period (c. 220-589 C.E.) / Allegorical narrative in Six Dynasties anomaly tales : ghostly sightings and afterworld vengeance / Chinese ghosts : reconciling psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxian perspectives / Jerrold S. Cooper -- Christopher J. Eyre -- Sze-kar Wan -- Steven Shankman -- Charles W. King -- Alan E. Bernstein -- Fernando Vidal -- Shang-jen Li -- Po-chi Huang -- Mu-chou Poo -- Yuan-ju Liu -- P. Steven Sangren.

As a religious phenomenon, the realm of ghosts has been less studied than the realm of the divine. This work examines the received concepts and images of ghosts in various religious cultures ranging from the Ancient Near East and Egypt to the Old Testament, the Classical Era, Early medieval and Early Modern Europe, Early India, and Medieval China.


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Geschichte


Ghosts--Congresses.
Spirits--Congresses.
Religions--Congresses.
Esprits--Congrès.
Religions--Congrès.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Parapsychology--General.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Angels & Spirit Guides.
Ghosts.
Religions.
Spirits.
Geister
Weltreligion
Geesten.
Spoken.
Godsdiensten.
Fantômes.
Esprits.
Religion populaire.


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