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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.
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Mu-chou Poo, Ph.D. (1984) in Egyptology, Johns Hopkins University, is Research Fellow in the Institute of History and Philology at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, China. His publications include Enemies if Civilization: Attitudes toward Foreigners in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and China (SUNY, 2005)
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"The contributors hail from such varied and various disciplines as Theology, Philosophy, History, Egyptology, Philology and Anthropology, but I believe that parapsychologists might learn and benefit from this work as a fine example of a successful interdisciplinary endeavour."
Elliot Cohen, Leeds Metropolitan University, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol 75,2
"The effort which has been put into this volume is of high standard and should be commended. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in ghosts and apparitions, in order to learn more about how and why different people and different cultures interpret paranormal occurrences the way they do."
Callum Cooper, Northampton University, The Journal for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2
"As a whole, Rethinking Ghosts collects several valuable contributions to the study of specters and spirits in the world's historical religions."
Molly Bassett, Georgia State University, Religion 42:3
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- PublisherBrill Academic Pub
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 9004171525
- ISBN 13 9789004171527
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages342
- EditorPoo Mu-Chou
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Hardcover. Condition: near fine. First edition. Octavo. xvi, 342pp. Index and 24 page bibliography. Pictorial buckram with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). 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: Wind and smoke : giving up the ghost of Enkidu, comprehending Enkidu's ghosts /; Jerrold S. Cooper --; Belief and the dead in Pharaonic Egypt /; Christopher J. Eyre --; Where have all the ghosts gone? : evolution of a concept in biblical literature /; Sze-kar Wan --; Ghosts and responsibility : the Hebrew Bible, Confucius, Plato /; Steven Shankman --; The Roman manes : the dead as gods /; Charles W. King --; The ghostly troop and the battle over death : William of Auvergne (d. 1249) connects Christian, Old Norse, and Irish views /; Alan E. Bernstein --; Ghosts of the European Enlightenment /; Fernando Vidal --; Ghost, vampire, and scientific naturalism : observation and evidence in the supernatural fiction of Grant Allen, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle /; Shang-jen Li --; The cult of VetÄla and Tantric fantasy /; Po-chi Huang --; The culture of ghosts in the Six Dynasties period (c. 220-589 C.E.) /; Mu-chou Poo --; Allegorical narrative in Six Dynasties anomaly tales : ghostly sightings and afterworld vengeance /; Yuan-ju Liu --; Chinese ghosts : reconciling psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxian perspectives /; P. Steven Sangren. Volume 123 in the Brill's series, "Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions.". Seller Inventory # 52977
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