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| Genre/Form: | Comparative studies |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hiroshi Ōbayashi |
| ISBN: | 0275941043 9780275941048 |
| OCLC Number: | 23731557 |
| Description: | xxii, 209 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Living with spirits : death and afterlife in African religions / George C. Bond -- The fate of mankind : death and afterlife in ancient Mesopotamia / Jerrold S. Cooper -- Taking it with you : the problem of death and afterlife in ancient Egypt / William J. Murnane -- Death and afterlife in Greek tragedy and Plato / Helen F. North -- From witchcraft to justice : death and afterlife in the Old Testament / George E. Mendenhall -- Death and afterlife in the New Testament / Leander E. Keck -- Bound up in the bond of life : death and afterlife in the Jewish tradition / Robert Goldenberg -- Death and eternal life in Christianity / Hiroshi Obayashi -- "Your sight today is piercing" : the Muslim understanding of death and afterlife / William C. Chittick -- Hindu views of death and afterlife / Thomas J. Hopkins -- Death as threat, death as achievement : Buddhist perspectives with particular reference to the Theravada tradition / Frank E. Reynolds -- The Tibetan Tantric view of death and afterlife / Elisabeth Benard -- Death and afterlife in Chinese religions / Judith A. Berling. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Hiroshi Obayashi. |
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