03011nam 2200529 450 991079663760332120230814221546.03-11-052867-310.1515/9783110530773(CKB)4100000001044531(MiAaPQ)EBC5156618(DE-B1597)475069(OCoLC)1013820339(DE-B1597)9783110530773(Au-PeEL)EBL5156618(CaPaEBR)ebr11473950(EXLCZ)99410000000104453120171223h20182018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierExperiencing the beyond intercultural approaches /edited by Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta, Laura S. CarugatiOldenbourg, [Germany] :De Gruyter,2018.©20181 online resource (280 pages)Challenges of Life ;Volume 43-11-052853-3 3-11-053077-5 Includes bibliographical references.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 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. Challenges of life ;Volume 4.EthnohistoryEthnohistory.909.04Melville GertRuta CarlosCarugati Laura S.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796637603321Experiencing the beyond3701723UNINA