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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821919303321

Titolo

Experiencing the beyond : intercultural approaches / / edited by Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta, Laura S. Carugati

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oldenbourg, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

3-11-052867-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 pages)

Collana

Challenges of Life ; ; Volume 4

Disciplina

909.04

Soggetti

Ethnohistory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- There is no “Being Itself” Beyond Beings – The Progressive Oblivion of an Original Metaphysics -- The Beyond: Death, Aesthetics and Phenomenology -- Beyonds, Factishes, and Fetishes -- Beyond the Self Circle -- Spirit World as the Beyond from an Anthropological Perspective -- Beyond the Species, or the ‘Beyond’ of Human Life? -- The Question of Beyond -- Ideas – Presences – Practices -- The Horror of Flawlessness -- Living with Demons -- Transcendences in the Italian Renaissance -- The Mission as “Beyond” and Beyond the Mission -- Expelling Demons and Attracting Demons in Jewish Magical Texts -- Many Paths, Many Souls: Traditional Chinese Views of the Other World -- Liberation through Realizing the Emptiness of Dependent Origination -- Here, There, and “Beyond” – Japanese Views on the Afterlife -- Can the Metaphysical Be Rationally Proven? -- Ontological Thresholds in Contemporary Shamanisms -- The Beyond as Partner of the Here and Now -- About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Experiencing the dimension that lies beyond our empirical grasp of the world has always been a challenge for human beings, for it can expose the limitations of our agency. Such experience, while potentially terrifying, can also furnish a basis for religious faith or hope of a better future. The intercultural essays in this volume analyze ways of dealing with the beyond, including magic, religion, myth, and all-promising utopias.