04907nam 22007333u 450 991045088240332120210117210350.01-280-52362-X0-19-802098-80-19-536352-3(CKB)1000000000407938(EBL)272428(OCoLC)476010669(SSID)ssj0000305354(PQKBManifestationID)11226892(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000305354(PQKBWorkID)10305647(PQKB)10128478(SSID)ssj0000364034(PQKBManifestationID)12132597(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000364034(PQKBWorkID)10396032(PQKB)10422095(MiAaPQ)EBC1591112(MiAaPQ)EBC272428(EXLCZ)99100000000040793820160530d1989|||| u|| |engtxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOtherworld Journeys[electronic resource] Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern TimesNew York Oxford University Press19891 online resource (286 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-503915-7 0-19-505665-5 CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: ORIENTATION; CHAPTER 1 A Wide-Angle View; CHAPTER 2 Four Models of Christian Otherworld Journey Narration; The Otherworld Journey as Apocalypse: The Vision of St. Paul; The Otherworld Journey as Miracle Story: The Dialogues of Gregory the Great; The Otherworld Journey as Conversion: The Vision of Drythelm; The Otherworld Journey as Pilgrimage: St. Patrick's Purgatory; PART II: MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN RETURN-FROM-DEATH STORIES: A THEMATIC TREATMENT; CHAPTER 3 The Other World: Medieval Itineraries; Exit from the Body; The Guide; The Journey; CHAPTER 4 Obstacles; FireThe Test-Bridge Encounter with Deeds; CHAPTER 5 Reentry; The Visionary Transformed; The Visionary as Messenger; The Narrator as Messenger; Vision and Revision; Interpretation of Visions; PART III: THE MODERN NEAR-DEATH NARRATIVE: A THEMATIC AND COMPARATIVE TREATMENT; CHAPTER 6 From Deathbed Visions to Life After Life; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Precursors; Life After Life: A New Phase; The Researchers; CHAPTER 7 The Other World: Modern Itineraries; Attitudes toward Death and Dying; Images of the Soul; Liminality; The Journey; The Light; Judgment""Falling into Heaven"": Mystical States and Visions of the Whole Otherworld Topography; Otherworld Demography; CHAPTER 8 Back to Life; Approaching the Point of No Return; The Visionary Transformed; The Visionary and the Interviewer; PART IV: THE INTERPRETATION OF NEAR-DEATH VISIONS; CHAPTER 9 Ecstatics and Statistics; Credentials; Verification; CHAPTER 10 Explanations and Counter explanations; Were They Dead?; Models of Death; ""Natural"" Causes; Counterarguments; CHAPTER 11 Evaluating Near-Death Testimony; Experiential Claims; Double Vision; Corporeal Imagery; The Question of InterpretationAnother World to Live In Orientation; APPENDIX: Chronology of Medieval Visions; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;Dozens of books, articles, television shows, and films relating ""near-death"" experiences have appeared in the past decade. People who have survived a close brush with death reveal their extraordinary visions and ecstatic feelings at the moment they died, describing journeys through a tunnel to a realm of light, visual reviews of their past deeds, encounters with a benevolent spirit, and permanent transformation after returning to life. Carol Zaleski's Otherworld Journeys offers the most comprehensive treatment to date of the evidence surrounding near-death experiences. The first to plaNear-death experiencesNear-death experiences - Religious aspects - ChristianityNear-death experiencesChristianityReligious aspectsMiddle Ages, 600-1500Near-death experiencesHistory of doctrinesChristianityReligious aspectsVoyages to the otherworldVoyages to the otherworld in literatureElectronic books.Near-death experiences.Near-death experiences - Religious aspects - Christianity.Near-death experiencesChristianityReligious aspectsNear-death experiencesHistory of doctrinesChristianityReligious aspectsVoyages to the otherworldVoyages to the otherworld in literature133.9013Zaleski Carol718168AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910450882403321Otherworld Journeys2238595UNINA