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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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