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Death, Dying, and Mysticism : The Ecstasy of the End / edited by T. Cattoi, C. Moreman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mysticism, 2946-3289
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religions.
- Religion--History.
- Religion.
- Spirituality.
- Comparative Religion.
- History of Religion.
- Local Subjects:
- Comparative Religion.
- History of Religion.
- Spirituality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- This volume offers a sample of reflections from scholars and practitioners on the theme of death and dying from scholars and practitioners, ranging from the Christian tradition to Hinduism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, while also touching on the themes of the afterlife and near-death experiences.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Ars Moriendi after Kant's Turn to the Subject; 1 Lady Jacopa and Francis: ; 2 Mystical Dying in Contemporary Autobiographies; 3 Traces of Resurrection: The Pattern of Simone Weil's Mysticism; 4 Thoreau's Religious Response to Death; 5 You Create Your Own Reality: ; 6 Symbolic Death of the Subject in the Structure of Jacques Lacan; 7 Anomalous Experiences and the Bereavement Process; 8 Heaven Is for Real and America's Fascination with Near-Death Experiences; 9 Mystical Knowledge and Near-Death Experience
- 10 The Experience of Death as Non-Death11 Death Visions of the Goddess Kali: ; 12 Samad̄hi as True Death in the Yogasut̄ra; 13 At Our End Is the Beginning: ; 14 Modern Requiem Compositions and Musical Knowledge of Death and Afterlife; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137472083
- 1137472081
- OCLC:
- 906570076
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