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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Zaleski Carol"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Otherworld Journeys [[electronic resource] ] : Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-280-52362-X"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-19-802098-8"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-19-536352-3"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (286 pages)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"133.9013"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Near-death experiences"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Near-death experiences - Religious aspects - Christianity"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Near-death experiences - Christianity - Religious aspects - Middle Ages, 600-1500"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Near-death experiences - History of doctrines - Christianity - Religious aspects"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Voyages to the otherworld"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Voyages to the otherworld in literature"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: ORIENTATION; CHAPTER 1 A Wide-Angle View; CHAPTER 2 Four Models of Christian Otherworld Journey Narration; The Otherworld Journey as Apocalypse: The Vision of St. Paul; The Otherworld Journey as Miracle Story: The Dialogues of Gregory the Great; The Otherworld Journey as Conversion: The Vision of Drythelm; The Otherworld Journey as Pilgrimage: St. Patrick's Purgatory; PART II: MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN RETURN-FROM-DEATH STORIES: A THEMATIC TREATMENT; CHAPTER 3 The Other World: Medieval Itineraries; Exit from the Body; The Guide; The Journey; CHAPTER 4 Obstacles; Fire"]
[{"$nulls":4},"The 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 "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Itineraries; Attitudes toward Death and Dying; Images of the Soul; Liminality; The Journey; The Light; Judgment"]
[{"$nulls":4},"\"\"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 Interpretation"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Another World to Live In Orientation; APPENDIX: Chronology of Medieval Visions; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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 pla"]