Revival: Religion and the Future Life (1922)
Subtitle: the Development of the Belief in Life After Death By Authorities in the History of Religions
By: Elias Hershey Sneath
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781315122861
Subjects: Future life; Immortality; Vie future; Immortalité
Description: "This book discusses the in-depth history regarding the development of the belief in the Life After Death, including incites from across history and culture. From Ancient Egyptian and Persian beliefs to modern Christianity and Islam."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 The Idea of the Future Life Among Primitive Tribes  -- Franz Boas; title: chapter 2 Ancient Egyptian Ideas of the Life Hereafter  -- James Henry Breasted; title: chapter 3 Immortality in India  -- E. Washburn Hopkins; title: chapter 4 Immortality Among the Babylonians and Assyrians  -- Morris Jastrow; title: chapter 5 The Ancient Persian Doctrine of a Future Life 1 --; title: chapter 6 Immortality in the Hebrew Religion  -- Lewis Bayles Paton; title: chapter 7 Immortality in Greek Religion  -- Arthur Fairbanks; title: chapter 8 Immortality in the Synoptic Gospels  -- Benjamin Wisner Bacon; title: chapter 9 Paul's Belief in Life After Death  -- Frank Chamberlin Porter; title: chapter 10 Immortality in the Fourth Gospel  -- Benjamin Wisner Bacon; title: chapter 11 Immortality in Mohammedanism  -- Duncan Black Macdonald; title: chapter 12 Life After Death -- E. Hershey Sneath.