What is it like to be dead? : near-death experiences, Christianity, and the occult / Jens Schlieter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schlieter, Jens, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in Western esotericism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Near-death experiences.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 344 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Contents:

Part 1 Near-Death Experiences As Religious Discourse

1.2 Experiences of Dying and Death p. 11

1.3 The Formation of Near Death Experiences: Moody, Ritchie, and Hampe p. 17

1.4 Near Death Experiences and the Religious Metacultures of Western Modernity p. 33

Part 2 The Different Strands Of Death: Western Discourse On Experiences Near Death (1580-1975)

2.2 Currents of Early Modern Near-Death Discourse p. 53

2.3 The Integration of Theosophical Narratives on Travels of the "Spiritual Body" (ca. 1860-1905) p. 117

2.4 The Advent of Parapsychology and the Figuration of "Out-of-the-Body Experiences" (1880-1936) p. 135

2.5 The Theosophical Discovery of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (1927) p. 153

2.6 Consolidation of Near-Death Discourse (1930-1960) p. 167

2.7 The Final Configuration of Near-Death Experiences (1960-1975) p. 185

Part 3 "Near-Death Experiences As Religious Protest Against Materialism And Modern Medicine In The 1960s And 1970s

3.2 Pushing Near-Death Experiences (I): Privatized Death p. 231

3.3 Pushing Near-Death Experiences (II): Reanimation, "Coma," and "Brain Death" p. 237

3.4 Pushing Near-Death Experiences (III): LSD- and Other Drug-Induced Experiences p. 245

3.5 The Imperative of "Individual Experience": Institutional Change of Religion in the 1960s and 1970s p. 251

Part 4 Wish-Fulfilling Expectations, Experiences, Retroactive Imputations: In Search Of Hermeneutics For Near-Death Experiences

4.2 Excursus: The "Death-x-Pulse," or: How to Imagine the Unimaginable? p. 267

4.3 The Survival Value of Narratives? p. 279

Part 5 The Significance Of Near-Death Experiences For Religious Discourse

5.1 The Presence of Religious Metacultures in Near Death Discourse (1580-1975) p. 285

5.2 The Religious Functions of Near-Death Experiences p. 293.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780190888848

0190888849

OCLC:

1027826049