Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations
Subtitle: Universalism, Constructivism and Near-Death Experience
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London and New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780826440730
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Gavin Flood; title: Acknowledgements; title: Abbreviations of Primary Sources; title: Introduction; title: Part I: Theory and Methodology in Concept and Application; title: 1. Comparison, Universalism, and the Rehabilitation of the Comparative ‘Similar’; title: 2. Early Civilizations, Contact, Diffusion, and Cultural Continuity; title: 3. Near-Death Experience; title: Part II: Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations; title: 4. Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt; title: 5. Sumerian and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia; title: 6. Vedic India; title: 7. Pre-Buddhist China; title: 8. Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica; title: Part III: Universalism and Culture-Specificity: An Interdisciplinary Approach; title: 9. Analysis of Similarities and Differences; title: 10. The Interface of Conception and Experience; title: 11. Alternative and Supplementary Theories; title: 12. Conclusions: Theoretical Eclecticism and A New Comparative Framework; title: References; title: Index