Imaginations of death and the beyond in India and Europe. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Günter Blamberger, Sudhir Kakar, editors.
• Editors: Blamberger, Günter; Kakar, Sudhir
• Contents: 1. Moksha: On the Hindu Quest for Immortality Sudhir Kakar.- 2. Threshold-Images between Life and Death in Western Literature and Film Günter Blamberger -- 3. Illusions of Immortality Jonardon Ganeri -- 4. The quest for immortality as a technical problem. The idea of Cybergnosis and the visions of posthumanism Oliver Krüger -- 5. From biological to moral immortality: The transformation of the working class hero in communism Anja Kirsch -- 6. Images of Death and the Afterlife in India Naman Ahuja -- 7. Dream, Death and Death within a Dream Arindam Chakrabarti -- 8. The Afterworld as a Site of Punishment. Imagining Hell in European Literature Friedrich Vollhardt -- 9. The Afterlife of the Dead in this World: Ghosts, Art, and Poetry in German Modernism Georg Braungart -- 10. “Death-x-pulse”: A Hermeneutics for Near-Death-Experiences Jens Schlieter -- 11. Paths to Nirvana? Hunger as Practice of Suicide Thomas Macho -- 12. Afterlife and Fertility in Varanasi Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar.
• Publisher Details: Singapore, Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 291.23; Death -- India -- Religious aspects; Death -- Europe -- Religious aspects; Immortality; Future life; RELIGION / Comparative Religion; Death -- Religious aspects; Future life; Immortality; Religion -- Psychology of Religion; Religion -- Comparative Religion; Psychology; Comparative religion; Ethnology; Psychology and religion; Religions; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Europe; India; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811067075; 9811067074
• Related ISBNs: 9789811067068; 9811067066
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 5, 2018).
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.