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Imaginations of Death and the Beyond in India and Europe (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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Imaginations of Death and the Beyond in India and Europe (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the
presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian
and European traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest
and most fundamental uncertainty of human existence---the awareness
of human mortality, on which depends any assignment of meaning to
earthly existence as also to notions of worldly and otherworldly
salvation. This central idea is addressed in the literature, arts,
audiovisual media and other cultural artefacts of the two
traditions. The chapters are based on two main assumptions: First,
that one cannot report on the direct experience of death; so it is
only possible to speak allegorically of it. Second, in contemporary
Western societies, marked by structural atheism, people look at
literature, the arts and mass media to study their depiction and
reading of traditionally religious questions of disease, death and
the Beyond. This is in contrast to Asian civilizations whose
preoccupation with death and Beyond is persistent and perhaps
central to the civilizations' highest thought. The chapters cover a
wide spectrum of disciplinary approaches, from psychoanalysis to
religious, anthropological, literary and film studies, from
sociology and philosophy to art history, and address issues of
unsettling power: comforting illusions of afterlife; the relations
between afterlife and fertility; visions of technological
immortalization of mankind; the problem of thinking about death
after the "death of God"; socialist utopias of bodily immortality;
fear of Hell and punishment; different concepts in relating the
living and the dead; near-death experiences; and cultural practices
of spiritualism, occultism and suicide.
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