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UNINA9910455377803321 |
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Conceptions of the afterlife in early civilizations : universalism, constructivism, and near-death experience / / Gregory Shushan |
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London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2009 |
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1-4725-4894-9 |
1-282-18939-5 |
9786612189395 |
1-4411-8812-6 |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Continuum Advances in Religious Studies ; ; v.6 |
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Future life |
Near-death experiences |
Universalism |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-224) and index. |
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Foreword by Gavin Flood -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations of Primary Sources -- Introduction -- Part I: Theory and Methodology in Concept and Application. 1. Comparison, Universalism, and the Rehabilitation of the Comparative 'Similar' ; 2. Early Civilizations, Contact, Diffusion, and Cultural Continuity ; 3. Near-Death Experience -- Part II: Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations. 4. Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt ; 5. Sumerian and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia ; 6. Vedic India ; 7. Pre-Buddhist China ; 8. Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica -- Part III: Universalism and Culture-Specificity: An Interdisciplinary Approach. 9. Analysis of Similarities and Differences ; 10. The Interface of Conception and Experience ; 11. Alternative and Supplementary Theories ; 12. Conclusions: Theoretical Eclecticism and A New Comparative Framework -- References -- Index. |
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"Gregory Shushan challenges post-modern scholarly attitudes concerning cross-cultural comparisons in the study of religions. In an original and innovative piece of comparative research, he analyses afterlife conceptions in five ancient civilisations (Old and Middle |
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Kingdom Egypt, Sumerian and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, Vedic India, pre-Buddhist China, and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica). These are considered in light of historical and contemporary reports of near-death experiences, and shamanic afterlife 'journeys'. Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations is a significant study, for it presents a comprehensive new comparative framework for the cross-cultural study of myth and religion, while at the same time providing a fascinating exploration of the interface between belief and experience."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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UNINA9910511468203321 |
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China's literary cosmopolitans : Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang, and the world of letters / / edited by Christopher Rea |
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Leiden, [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Sinica Leidensia, , 0169-9563 ; ; Volume 125 |
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Chinese literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction: All the World’s a Book / Christopher Rea -- 1 Yang Jiang’s Wartime Comedies; Or, The Serious Business of Marriage / Amy D. Dooling -- 2 “Passing Handan without Dreaming”: Passion and Restraint in the Poetry and Poetics of Qian Zhongshu / Yugen Wang -- 3 Self-Deception and Self-Knowledge in Yang Jiang’s Fiction / Judith M. Amory -- 4 How to Do Things with Words: Yang Jiang and the Politics of Translation / Carlos Rojas -- 5 Guanzhui bian, Western Citations, and the Cultural Revolution / Ronald Egan -- 6 The Pleasures of Lying Low: Yang Jiang and Chinese Revolutionary Culture / Wendy Larson -- 7 The Institutional Mindset: Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang on Marriage and the Academy / |
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Christopher Rea -- 8 “All Alone, I Think Back on We Three”: Yang Jiang’s New Intimate Public / Jesse Field -- 9 The Cosmopolitan Imperative: Qian Zhongshu and “World Literature” / Theodore Huters -- Epilogue: All Will Come Out in the Washing / Christopher Rea -- Appendix: Works in English by Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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China’s Literary Cosmopolitans offers a comprehensive introduction to the literary oeuvres of Qian Zhongshu (1910-98) and Yang Jiang (b. 1911). It assesses their novels, essays, stories, poetry, plays, translations, and criticism, and discusses their reception as two of the most important Chinese scholar-writers of the twentieth century. In addition to re-evaluating this married couple’s intertwined literary careers, the book also explains why they have come to represent such influential models of Chinese literary cosmopolitanism. Uncommonly well-versed in Western languages and literatures, Qian and Yang chose to live in China and write in Chinese. China’s Literary Cosmopolitans argues for their artistic importance while analyzing their works against the modern cultural imperative that Chinese literature be worldly. Christopher Rea (Ph.D., Columbia) is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (California, 2015), co-editor of The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65 (ubc Press, 2015), and editor of Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays by Qian Zhongshu (Columbia, 2011). |
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