Experiencing the Beyond : : Intercultural Approaches / / Carlos Ruta, Gert Melville.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
• HerausgeberIn: Melville, Gert,; Ruta, Carlos,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2017]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 269 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; There is no “Being Itself” Beyond Beings – The Progressive Oblivion of an Original Metaphysics --; The Beyond: Death, Aesthetics and Phenomenology --; Beyonds, Factishes, and Fetishes --; Beyond the Self Circle --; Spirit World as the Beyond from an Anthropological Perspective --; Beyond the Species, or the ‘Beyond’ of Human Life? --; The Question of Beyond --; Ideas – Presences – Practices --; The Horror of Flawlessness --; Living with Demons --; Transcendences in the Italian Renaissance --; The Mission as “Beyond” and Beyond the Mission --; Expelling Demons and Attracting Demons in Jewish Magical Texts --; Many Paths, Many Souls: Traditional Chinese Views of the Other World --; Liberation through Realizing the Emptiness of Dependent Origination --; Here, There, and “Beyond” – Japanese Views on the Afterlife --; Can the Metaphysical Be Rationally Proven? --; Ontological Thresholds in Contemporary Shamanisms --; The Beyond as Partner of the Here and Now --; About the Authors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110530773; 9783110719550; 9783110540550; 9783110547764
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110530773
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Carlos Ruta, Gert Melville.

Experiencing the dimension that lies beyond our empirical grasp of the world has always been a challenge for human beings, for it can expose the limitations of our agency. Such experience, while potentially terrifying, can also furnish a basis for religious faith or hope of a better future. The intercultural essays in this volume analyze ways of dealing with the beyond, including magic, religion, myth, and all-promising utopias.