LEADER 04583nam 22005055 450 001 9910300009203321 005 20200706224800.0 010 $a981-10-6707-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-10-6707-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000002892599 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5419316 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-10-6707-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000002892599 100 $a20180327d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aImaginations of Death and the Beyond in India and Europe /$fedited by Günter Blamberger, Sudhir Kakar 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (208 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a981-10-6706-6 327 $a1. Moksha: On the Hindu Quest for Immortality Sudhir Kakar -- 2. Threshold-Images between Life and Death in Western Literature and Film Günter Blamberger -- 3. Illusions of Immortality Jonardon Ganeri -- 4. The quest for immortality as a technical problem. The idea of Cybergnosis and the visions of posthumanism Oliver Krüger -- 5. From biological to moral immortality: The transformation of the working class hero in communism Anja Kirsch -- 6. Images of Death and the Afterlife in India Naman Ahuja -- 7. Dream, Death and Death within a Dream Arindam Chakrabarti -- 8. The Afterworld as a Site of Punishment. Imagining Hell in European Literature Friedrich Vollhardt -- 9. The Afterlife of the Dead in this World: Ghosts, Art, and Poetry in German Modernism Georg Braungart -- 10. ?Death-x-pulse?: A Hermeneutics for Near-Death-Experiences Jens Schlieter -- 11. Paths to Nirvana? Hunger as Practice of Suicide Thomas Macho -- 12. Afterlife and Fertility in Varanasi Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar. 330 $aThis volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and Western traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest and most fundamental uncertainty of human existence---the awareness of human mortality, on which depends any assignment of meaning to earthly existence as also to notions of worldly and otherworldly salvation. This central idea is addressed in the literature, arts, audiovisual media and other cultural artefacts of the two traditions. The chapters are based on two main assumptions: First, that one cannot report on the direct experience of death; so it is only possible to speak allegorically of it. Second, in contemporary Western societies, marked by structural atheism, people look at literature, the arts and mass media to study their depiction and reading of traditionally religious questions of disease, death and the Beyond. This is in contrast to Asian civilizations whose preoccupation with death and Beyond is persistent and perhaps central to the civilizations? highest thought. The chapters cover a wide spectrum of disciplinary approaches, from psychoanalysis to religious, anthropological, literary and film studies, from sociology and philosophy to art history, and address issues of unsettling power: comforting illusions of afterlife; the relations between afterlife and fertility; visions of technological immortalization of mankind; the problem of thinking about death after the ?death of God?; socialist utopias of bodily immortality; fear of Hell and punishment; different concepts in relating the living and the dead; near-death experiences; and cultural practices of spiritualism, occultism and suicide. 606 $aEthnology 606 $aPsychology and religion 606 $aReligions 606 $aCultural Anthropology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411060 606 $aReligion and Psychology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y46000 606 $aComparative Religion$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1A1000 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aPsychology and religion. 615 0$aReligions. 615 14$aCultural Anthropology. 615 24$aReligion and Psychology. 615 24$aComparative Religion. 676 $a291.23 702 $aBlamberger$b Günter$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aKakar$b Sudhir$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300009203321 996 $aImaginations of Death and the Beyond in India and Europe$92150049 997 $aUNINA