Tales of lights and shadows
Subtitle: mythology of the afterlife
By: Robert Ellwood.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781441143976; 9781441170033
Subjects: Future life; Mythology
Table of contents: title: In that good night, what dreams may come? : myth, meaning, and afterlife; title: Hungry and happy fields of the dead : gloomy vs. bright views of the afterlife; title: The several homelands of the heart : abodes of the soul; title: Circling paths, endless journey : reincarnation vs. eternal life in heaven or hell; title: God or garden of delights? : is heaven theocentric or anthropocentric?; title: Ghostly fear and love : the dread of ancestral spirits vs. respect and honor; title: On the long march : community and religious solidarity vs. individual reward and punishment; title: Amazing grace : difficult vs. easy paths; title: The end of days : linear and cyclical time; title: Common and uncommon faith : the afterlife in folk religion and the great tradition; title: Retrospect : afterlife and culture.