Rethinking ghost in world religions
Subtitle: behind the ghastly smoke
By: edited by Mu-Chou Poo.
Contributors: Pu, Muzhou.
Series: Numen book series -- v. 123
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9789004171527
Subjects: Ghosts; Spirits; Religions
Description: "The central theme of this volume is to re-examine the received concepts and images of ghosts in various religious cultures ranging from the Ancient Near East and Egypt to the Old Testament, the Classical Era, Early Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Early India, and Medieval China. As a religious phenomenon, the realm of ghosts has been less studied than the realm of the divine. Through a collaborative effort by scholars from different disciplines, this volume proposes a multi-cultural approach to construct a wider and complicated picture of the phenomenon of ghosts and spirits in human societies and to have a grasp of the various problems involved in understanding the phenomenon of ghost."--Jacket.
Notes: Proceedings of a conference held in Dec. 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.