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Life after death in world religions
- Title
- Life after death in world religions / edited by Harold Coward.
- Publication
- Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [1997], ©1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Coward, Harold G.
- Description
- vii, 131 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
- Series Statement
- Faith meets faith series
- Uniform Title
- Faith meets faith.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The Western Religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- The Eastern Religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, and the Chinese Traditions -- 1. Judaism / Eliezer Segal. The First Commonwealth (until ca. 539 B.C.E.). Babylonian Exile and Second Commonwealth (539 B.C.E. to 70 C.E.). Talmudic Perspectives (70 to ca. 700 C.E.). Medieval Judaism (ca. 700 to ca. 1750 C.E.). Modern Judaism (from ca. 1750) -- 2. Christianity / Terence Penelhum. Christian Origins. The Core Christian Claims about the Afterlife. Philosophical Difficulties in the Christian View -- 3. Islam / Hanna Kassis. "Only He Remains" "Here I AM Lord": Preparation and Burial of the Dead. "Tasting the Nearer Chastisement": Judgment in the Tomb. "When Shall Be the Day of Resurrections?" "Unto the Path of Hell" "Enter Thou My Paradise" -- 4. Hinduism / Anantanand Rambachan. Central Features of Hinduism. Hindu Views of the Person. Hindu Views of Death and Afterlife -- 5. Buddhism / Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay.
- Many Lives - Many Deaths: The Basic Assumptions. Dying and Being Reborn in the View of the Traditions. The Tibetan Lore of Dying and Rebirth. The Bar do thos grol. The "Liberation from the Intermediary State" and Reports of Near-Death Experiences -- 6. Chinese Religions / Gary Arbuckle. Notes from the Nether World. Cosmological Contexts and the Theory of the Soul. Going to One's Reward. Prison Breaks: Philosophy, Alchemy, Escape, Endurance. The Afterlife in "After-Times"
- ISBN
- 1570751196 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96051083
- OCLC
- ocm36001370
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries