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Rethinking ghosts in world religions /
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 Earl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Colección: | Studies in the history of religions ;
123. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Ghosts and responsibility : the Hebrew Bible, Confucius, Plato / Steven Shankman
- The Roman manes : the dead as gods / Charles W. King
- The ghostly troop and the battle over death : William of Auvergne (d. 1249) connects Christian, Old Norse, and Irish views / Alan E. Bernstein
- Ghosts of the European Enlightenment / Fernando Vidal
- Ghost, vampire, and scientific naturalism : observation and evidence in the supernatural fiction of Grant Allen, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle / Shang-jen Li
- The cult of Vetāla and Tantric fantasy / Po-chi Huang
- The culture of ghosts in the Six Dynasties period (c. 220-589 C.E.) / Mu-chou Poo
- Allegorical narrative in Six Dynasties anomaly tales : ghostly sightings and afterworld vengeance / Yuan-ju Liu
- Chinese ghosts : reconciling psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxian perspectives / P. Steven Sangren.