Death and Immortality in the Religions of the World
Author | : Paul Badham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Death |
ISBN | : 9780913757673 |
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Author | : Paul Badham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Death |
ISBN | : 9780913757673 |
Author | : Paul Badham |
Publisher | : Afterworlds Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-05-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781786772381 |
Most of the world's religions hold a belief in some form of life after death. The editors of this major anthology seek a global perspective on the importance of these beliefs, based on religion, psychical research, and the natural sciences. Eleven chapters explore the afterlife teachings of religions around the world. In order to emphasize the diversity beliefs - even across particular belief systems - some contributors write from within the traditions, while others offer critical and alternate views. The chapters cover afterlife beliefs in African religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism while raising a number of important questions. Is a belief in an afterlife necessary to provide meaning to the here and now? Can science provide the means of affirming such beliefs? A further four contributions address these questions directly, and critique the belief systems from the perspectives of philosophy and psychical research. The final chapter highlights the importance of research into states of consciousness during near-death and other mystical experiences. Taken as a whole, the book constitutes the most valuable resource on the subject to date. The editors conclude that in some respects, a global perspective does emerge - particularly that human beings are more than just our bodies, but are "composed of a physical and nonphysical element." The contributors are all prominent international scholars, including Kofi Asare Opoku, Daniel Cohn-Sherbok, Thomas McGowan, Sulayman S. Nyang, Salih Tug, Mariasusai Dhavamony, R. Balasubramanian, Saeng Chandra-Ngarm, Bruce R. Reichenbach, Antony Flew, Arthur S. Berger, David Lorimer, and the editors themselves.
Author | : Farnáz Maʻsúmián |
Publisher | : Kalimat Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781890688271 |
Author | : Harold G. Coward |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : |
Experts from six traditions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Chinese religions discuss rituals, practices, and emotions as they relate to death and the hope of life that follows death.
Author | : Hiroshi Obayashi |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : |
Examines the subject of death and immortality in Africa, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece. Also from the point of view of the Old Testament, New Testament, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Tibetan Trantric and Chinese religions.
Author | : James Henry Leuba |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : God |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Oscar Emil Oesterley |
Publisher | : Pantianos Classics |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Eschatology |
ISBN | : |
What does the Bible say about immortality and the afterlife? In this study, we discover the origins and development of religious beliefs in life after death, and the existence of beings from realms beyond. In mounting this comprehensive and scholarly study of the Old Testament, W. O. E. Oesterley examines a variety of pertinent passages from the Biblical lore. By the time the Bible was written, demons and their ilk were already an established presence in ancient belief systems. Ancient Judaism included a variety of new demons, together with details on their habitat, behaviors and interaction with humans living on Earth. With demons synonymous with evil, angels were synonymous with good, enacting God's will that humans spend their mortality in virtue. What happens to humans after death has for millennia been an important spiritual question. The Bible contains a series of details on the traversal and immortality of the deceased's souls. In the ancient times ancestor worship was common, and these cults of the dead are acknowledged in the Old Testament. To compliment his narrative, the author also provides supplementary historical details of mourning and funerary customs, with a series of rituals said to ensure the soul's safe transit to the immortal realm.
Author | : Hans Schwarz |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2000-09-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780802847331 |
Schwarz guides readers through the range of opinions on the subject of the future, telling how readers' understanding of eschatology has developed and laying out the factors that must be considered when speaking meaningfully about the Christian hope in the 21st century. He surveys the teachings about the future in the Old and New Testaments and addresses the views of Christian and secular thinkers throughout history.
Author | : John Hick |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780664255091 |
In this cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study, John Hick draws upon major world religions, as well as biology, psychology, parapsychology, anthropology, and philosophy, to explore the mystery of death. He argues that scientific and philosophical objections to the idea of survival after death can be challenged, and he claims that human inadequacy in facing suffering supports the basic religious argument for immortality.
Author | : Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Immortality |
ISBN | : |