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Death and afterlife : perspectives of world religions

Author: Hiroshi Ōbayashi
Publisher: New York : Praeger, 1992.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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