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Experiencing the beyond : intercultural approaches /

Experiencing the dimension that lies beyond our empirical grasp of the world has always been a challenge for human beings, for it can expose the limitations of our agency. Such experience, while potentially terrifying, can also furnish a basis for religious faith or hope of a better future. The inte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Melville, Gert (Editor ), Ruta, Carlos (Editor ), Carugati, Laura S. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oldenbourg, [Germany] : De Gruyter, 2018.
Colección:Challenges of life ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • There is no "Being Itself" Beyond Beings - The Progressive Oblivion of an Original Metaphysics
  • The Beyond: Death, Aesthetics and Phenomenology
  • Beyonds, Factishes, and Fetishes
  • Beyond the Self Circle
  • Spirit World as the Beyond from an Anthropological Perspective
  • Beyond the Species, or the 'Beyond' of Human Life?
  • The Question of Beyond
  • Ideas - Presences - Practices
  • The Horror of Flawlessness
  • Living with Demons
  • Transcendences in the Italian Renaissance
  • The Mission as "Beyond" and Beyond the Mission
  • Expelling Demons and Attracting Demons in Jewish Magical Texts
  • Many Paths, Many Souls: Traditional Chinese Views of the Other World
  • Liberation through Realizing the Emptiness of Dependent Origination
  • Here, There, and "Beyond" - Japanese Views on the Afterlife
  • Can the Metaphysical Be Rationally Proven?
  • Ontological Thresholds in Contemporary Shamanisms
  • The Beyond as Partner of the Here and Now
  • About the Authors