Death, dying, and mysticism : the ecstasy of the end /: the ecstasy of the end. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Thomas Cattoi and Christopher Moreman.
• Editors: Cattoi, Thomas, 1973-; Moreman, Christopher M, 1974-
• Contents: Introduction: Ars Moriendi after Kant's Turn to the Subject; Thomas Cattoi 1. Lady Jacopa and Francis: Mysticism and The Management of Francis of Assisi's Deathbed Story; Darleen Pryds 2. Mystical Dying in Contemporary Autobiographies; Lucy Bregman 3. Traces of Resurrection: The Pattern of Simone Weil's Mysticism; Stuart Jesson 4. Thoreau's Religious Response to Death; Robert Michael Ruehl 5. You Create Your Own Reality: The Fallacy of Death in Jane Roberts' Seth Material; Cynthia A. Hogan 6. Symbolic Death of the Subject in the Structure of Jacques Lacan; Jin Sook Kim 7. Anomalous Experiences and the Bereavement Process; Callum E. Cooper, Chris A. Roe, and Graham Mitchell 8. Heaven is for Real and America's Fascination with Near-Death Experiences; Candy Guenther Brown 9. Mystical Knowledge and Near Death Experience; Lee Irwin 10. The Experience of Death as Non-Death; Jordan Paper 11. Death Visions of the Goddess Kali: The Bengali Shakta Corpse Ritual at the Burning Ground; June McDaniel 12. Sam?dhi as True Death in the Yogas?tra; Lloyd W. Pflueger 13. At our end is the beginning: Death as the Liminal Real in the Art of Frida Kahlo; June-Ann Greeley 14. Modern Requiem Compositions and Musical Knowledge of Death and Afterlife; Martin J. Hoondert.
• Edition: 2015
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 202.3; Death -- Religious aspects -- Comparative studies; Future life -- Comparative studies; Mysticism -- Comparative studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137472083
• Related ISBNs: 9781137472076
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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