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.

Table of Contents

Wind and smoke : giving up the ghost of Enkidu, comprehending Enkidu's ghosts / Jerrold S. Cooper -- Belief and the dead in Pharaonic Egypt / Christopher J. Eyre -- Where have all the ghosts gone? : evolution of a concept in biblical literature / Sze-kar Wan -- Ghosts and responsibility : the Hebrew Bible, Confucius, Plato / Steven Shankman -- The Roman manes : the dead as gods / Charles W. King -- The ghostly troop and the battle over death : William of Auvergne (d. 1249) connects Christian, Old Norse, and Irish views / Alan E. Bernstein -- Ghosts of the European Enlightenment / Fernando Vidal -- Ghost, vampire, and scientific naturalism : observation and evidence in the supernatural fiction of Grant Allen, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle / Shang-jen Li -- The cult of Vetala and Tantric fantasy / Po-chi Huang -- The culture of ghosts in the Six Dynasties period (c. 220-589 C.E.) / Mu-chou Poo -- Allegorical narrative in Six Dynasties anomaly tales : ghostly sightings and afterworld vengeance / Yuan-ju Liu -- Chinese ghosts : reconciling psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxian perspectives / P. Steven Sangren.