Rethinking ghosts in world religions / edited by Mu-chou Poo.

• Superior document: Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, v. 123
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Pu, Muzhou.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; 123.
• Physical Description: xvi, 342 p.
• Notes: Proceedings of a conference held in Dec. 2005.
• Other title: Wind and smoke : giving up the ghost of Enkidu, comprehending Enkidu's ghosts /; Belief and the dead in Pharaonic Egypt /; Where have all the ghosts gone? : evolution of a concept in biblical literature /; Ghosts and responsibility : the Hebrew Bible, Confucius, Plato /; The Roman manes : the dead as gods /; The ghostly troop and the battle over death : William of Auvergne (d. 1249) connects Christian, Old Norse, and Irish views /; Ghosts of the European Enlightenment /; Ghost, vampire, and scientific naturalism : observation and evidence in the supernatural fiction of Grant Allen, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle /; The cult of Vetala and Tantric fantasy /; The culture of ghosts in the Six Dynasties period (c. 220-589 C.E.) /; Allegorical narrative in Six Dynasties anomaly tales : ghostly sightings and afterworld vengeance /; Chinese ghosts : reconciling psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxian perspectives /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-335) and index.
• ISBN: 9789004171527 (hardback : alk. paper); 9004171525 (hardback : alk. paper)
• ISSN: 0169-8834
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Mu-chou Poo.