Rethinking ghosts in world religions / edited by Mu-chou Poo.
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| Superior document: | Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, v. 123 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the history of religions ;
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 342 p. |
| Notes: | Proceedings of a conference held in Dec. 2005. |
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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.