Tales of Lights and Shadows: Mythology of the AfterlifeBloomsbury Academic, 11/11/2010 - 176 páginas Tales of Lights and Shadows offers a fresh approach to the traditional mythology and literature of the afterlife, centering on tensions and polarities in the afterlife concepts: bright vs. dismal, heaven vs. reincarnation, theocentric vs. anthropocentric heaven, etc. Presenting examples from virtually all the world's religious cultures past and present, this fascinating book puts the concepts clearly in the context of the worldview and social issues of that society. |
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... Christian Heavens and Hells , Plus Purgatory The Christian faith , now embracing about one third of the world's population at least in terms of cultural background , has presented several diverse , and not always completely consistent ...
... Christianity . Although he had read some Christian literature provided by a missionary , his know- ledge of the western faith was far from perfect ; he created his own ingenious mix of Christian eschatology and traditional Chinese ...
... Christian Funerals Christian funeral customs vary considerably throughout world , often in accordance with local folk culture . Not a great deal is known about early Christian burial , but at first probably followed Roman practice , no ...
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In That Good Night What Dreams May Come? Myth | 1 |
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