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Inventing afterlives : the stories we tell ourselves about life after death /
Why is belief in an afterlife so persistent across times and cultures? And how can it coexist with disbelief in an afterlife? Most modern thinkers hold that afterlife belief serves such important psychological and social purposes as consoling survivors, enforcing morality, dispensing justice, or giv...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Concerning the present state of life after death
- Impermanent eternities : Egypt, Sumer, and Babylon, Ancient Israel, Greece, and Rome
- Touring Asian afterlives : eternal Impermanence
- Pursuing happiness : how the Enlightenment invented an afterlife to wish for
- Wandafuru Raifu or afterlife inventions and variations.