Rethinking Ghosts in World ReligionsMu-chou Poo The central theme of this volume is to re-examine the received concepts and images of ghosts in various religious cultures ranging from the Ancient Near East and Egypt to the Old Testament, the Classical Era, Early Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Early India, and Medieval China. As a religious phenomenon, the realm of ghosts has been less studied than the realm of the divine. Through a collaborative effort by scholars from different disciplines, this volume proposes a multi-cultural approach to construct a wider and complicated picture of the phenomenon of ghosts and spirits in human societies and to have a grasp of the various problems involved in understanding the phenomenon of ghost. |
Contents
Introduction Muchou Poo | 1 |
Giving up the Ghost of Enkidu Comprehending Enkidus Ghosts Jerrold S Cooper | 23 |
Belief and the Dead in Pharaonic Egypt Christopher J Eyre | 33 |
Where have all the Ghosts Gone? Evolution of a Concept in Biblical Literature Szekar Wan | 47 |
The Hebrew Bible Confucius Plato Steven Shankman | 77 |
The Dead as Gods Charles W King | 95 |
William of Auvergne d 1249 connects Christian Old Norse and Irish Views Alan E Bernstein | 115 |
Ghosts of the European Enlightenment Fernando Vidal | 163 |
Observation and Evidence in the Supernatural Fiction of Grant Allen Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle Shangjen Li | 183 |
The Cult of Vetäla and Tantric Fantasy Pochi Huang | 211 |
The Culture of Ghosts in the Six Dynasties Period c 220589 CE Muchou Poo | 237 |
Ghostly Sightings and Afterworld Vengeance Yuanju Liu | 269 |
Reconciling Psychoanalytic Structuralist and Marxian Perspectives P Steven Sangren | 299 |
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