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ISBN: 0710067232 9780710067234 Year: 1970 Publisher: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,
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Year: 1890 Publisher: Mazamet : Carayol,
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Year: 1746 Publisher: Lipsiae: excudebat Io. Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf,
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ISBN: 9788820989934 882098993X Year: 2013 Publisher: Città del Vaticano: Libreria editrice Vaticana,
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Year: 1906 Publisher: Leipzig : Hinrichs,
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ISBN: 9780389202516 0389202517 Year: 1982 Publisher: Totowa: Barnes and Noble,
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ISBN: 0091537010 9780091537012 Year: 1984 Publisher: London: Rider,
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Year: 1920 Publisher: Leipzig : B.G. Teubner,
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Year: 1896 Publisher: Paris : Felix Alcan, éditeur, Ancienne Librairie Germer Baillière et Cie,
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ISBN: 9780231185714 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press
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Why is belief in an afterlife so persistent across times and cultures? And how can it coexist with disbelief in an afterlife? Most modern thinkers hold that afterlife belief serves such important psychological and social purposes as consoling survivors, enforcing morality, dispensing justice, or giving life meaning. Yet the earliest, and some more recent, afterlives strikingly fail to satisfy those needs. Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter rooted in the question that a dead body raises: where has the life gone? Humans then and now, in communities and as individuals, ponder what they would want or experience were they in that body. From this endlessly recurring situation, afterlife narratives develop in all their complexity, variety, and ingenuity. Exploring afterlives from Egypt to Sumer, among Jews, Greeks, and Romans, to Christianity's advent and Islam's rise, Janes reveals how little concern ancient afterlives had with morality. In south and east Asia, karmic rebirth makes morality self-enforcing and raises a new problem: how to stop re-dying. The British enlightenment, Janes argues, invented the now widespread wish-fulfilling afterlife and illustrates how afterlives change. She also considers the surprising afterlife of afterlives among modern artists and writers who no longer believe in worlds beyond this one. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions; contemporary literature and film; primatology; cognitive science; and evolutionary psychology, Janes shows that in asking what happens after we die, we define the worlds we inhabit and the values by which we live.
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