Rethinking ghosts in world religions / edited by Mu-chou Poo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pu, Muzhou.

Series:

Studies in the history of religions ; 123.

Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, 0169-8834 ; v. 123

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ghosts--Congresses.

Ghosts.

Spirits--Congresses.

Spirits.

Religions--Congresses.

Religions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Wind and smoke : giving up the ghost of Enkidu, comprehending Enkidu's ghosts / Jerrold S. Cooper

Belief and the dead in Pharaonic Egypt / Christopher J. Eyre

Where have all the ghosts gone? : evolution of a concept in biblical literature / Sze-kar Wan

Ghosts and responsibility : the Hebrew Bible, Confucius, Plato / Steven Shankman

The Roman manes : the dead as gods / Charles W. King

The ghostly troop and the battle over death : William of Auvergne (d. 1249) connects Christian, Old Norse, and Irish views / Alan E. Bernstein

Ghosts of the European Enlightenment / Fernando Vidal

Ghost, vampire, and scientific naturalism : observation and evidence in the supernatural fiction of Grant Allen, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle / Shang-jen Li

The cult of Vetala and Tantric fantasy / Po-chi Huang

The culture of ghosts in the Six Dynasties period (c. 220-589 C.E.) / Mu-chou Poo

Allegorical narrative in Six Dynasties anomaly tales : ghostly sightings and afterworld vengeance / Yuan-ju Liu

Chinese ghosts : reconciling psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxian perspectives / P. Steven Sangren.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference held in Dec. 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-335) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-40040-1

9786612400407

90-474-2484-0

OCLC:

567643732

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004171527.i-344 DOI