Psychanodia
Subtitle: I : A survey of the evidence concerning the ascension of the Soul and its relevance
By: Ioan Petru Culianu
Series: Etudes préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain -- 99; Etudes préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain -- t. 99
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 81
Subjects: Soul; Ascension of the soul; History of doctrines
Other titles: Survey of the evidence concerning the ascension of the soul and its relevance
Notes: Includes index.

Notes: p. [63]-75.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements (ix); title: Bibliography (xi); title: Introduction (1); title: pt. 1. A delimination of the phenomenon and a critical survey of the modern historiography: I. Delimitation and morphology of the phenomenon (5) ; II. A historical fallacy : the theories of the "religionsgeschichtliche Schule" (16) ; III. A challenge : the theory of the Greek origins (24); title: pt. 2. A historical survey of the principal problems relating to the ascension of the soul: IV. The origins of the Apocalyptic genre (35) ; V. The celestial eschatology and its transformations (40) ; VI. The myths of Plutarch (43) ; VII. The passage of the soul through the spheres (48) ; VIII. From the Jewish apocalypses to the mi'raj (55); title: IX. Problems concerning the medieval apocalypses (58); title: Notes; title: Index nominum rerumque: I. Auctores moderni (77) ; II. Auctores antiqui (78) ; III. Alia nomina (79) ; IV. Res (80).