Conceptions of the afterlife in early civilizations
Subtitle: universalism, constructivism, and near-death experience
By: edited by Gregory Shushan.
Contributors: Shushan, Gregory.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826440730
Subjects: Future life; Universalism; Near-death experiences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Comparison, universalism, and the rehabilitation of the comparative similar; title: Early civilizations, contact, diffusion, and cultural continuity; title: Near-death experience; title: Old and middle kingdom Egypt; title: Sumerian and old Babylonian Mesopotamia; title: Vedic India; title: Pre-Buddhist China; title: Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica; title: Analysis of similarities and differences; title: The interface of conception and experience; title: Alternative and supplementary theories; title: Conclusions: Theoretical eclecticism and a new comparative framework.