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Ghosts - Appearances of the Dead and Cultural Transformation (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Ghosts - Appearances of the Dead and Cultural Transformation (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Loot Price R553
Discovery Miles 5 530
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Throughout history, people have reported seeing ghosts. But if we
compare a Victorian apparition with a medieval European or
Classical Greek ghost, we will find that they are very different
phenomena. In Ghosts: Appearances of the Dead and Cultural
Transformation, R. C. Finucane makes just such a comparison.
Surveying reports of ghosts from ancient Greece, the early
Christian era, the Reformation, the Victorian age, and the
twentieth century, Finucane asks some probing questions: How have
the physical aspects claimed for ghosts varied from age to age?
What differences are there in the functions and intentions ascribed
to ghosts? How have the changes in more general beliefs - in
religion and science, in particular - influenced the perception of
ghosts? For the first time a professional historian, drawing on
primary sources from all periods and cultures, addresses this topic
in its full breadth.
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