Experiencing the Beyond : : Intercultural Approaches / / 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 inte...
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| 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 ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 269 p.) |
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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