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Experiencing the beyond : intercultural approaches / edited by Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta, Laura S. Carugati.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Challenges of life ; Volume 4.
- Challenges of Life ; Volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnohistory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oldenbourg, [Germany] : De Gruyter, 2018.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Experiencing the dimension that lies beyond our empirical grasp of the world has always been a challenge for human beings, for it can expose the limitations of our agency. Such experience, while potentially terrifying, can also furnish a basis for religious faith or hope of a better future. The intercultural essays in this volume analyze ways of dealing with the beyond, including magic, religion, myth, and all-promising utopias.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- There is no “Being Itself” Beyond Beings – The Progressive Oblivion of an Original Metaphysics
- The Beyond: Death, Aesthetics and Phenomenology
- Beyonds, Factishes, and Fetishes
- Beyond the Self Circle
- Spirit World as the Beyond from an Anthropological Perspective
- Beyond the Species, or the ‘Beyond’ of Human Life?
- The Question of Beyond
- Ideas – Presences – Practices
- The Horror of Flawlessness
- Living with Demons
- Transcendences in the Italian Renaissance
- The Mission as “Beyond” and Beyond the Mission
- Expelling Demons and Attracting Demons in Jewish Magical Texts
- Many Paths, Many Souls: Traditional Chinese Views of the Other World
- Liberation through Realizing the Emptiness of Dependent Origination
- Here, There, and “Beyond” – Japanese Views on the Afterlife
- Can the Metaphysical Be Rationally Proven?
- Ontological Thresholds in Contemporary Shamanisms
- The Beyond as Partner of the Here and Now
- About the Authors
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed December 22, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 3-11-052867-3
- OCLC:
- 1013820339
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