Rethinking ghosts in world religions

Rethinking ghosts in world religions [electronic resource] / edited by Mu-chou Poo. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009. - xvi, 342 p. - Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, v. 123 0169-8834 ; . - Studies in the history of religions ; 123. .

Proceedings of a conference held in Dec. 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-335) and index.

Wind and smoke : giving up the ghost of Enkidu, comprehending Enkidu's ghosts / Belief and the dead in Pharaonic Egypt / Where have all the ghosts gone? : evolution of a concept in biblical literature / Ghosts and responsibility : the Hebrew Bible, Confucius, Plato / The Roman manes : the dead as gods / The ghostly troop and the battle over death : William of Auvergne (d. 1249) connects Christian, Old Norse, and Irish views / Ghosts of the European Enlightenment / Ghost, vampire, and scientific naturalism : observation and evidence in the supernatural fiction of Grant Allen, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle / The cult of Vetala and Tantric fantasy / The culture of ghosts in the Six Dynasties period (c. 220-589 C.E.) / Allegorical narrative in Six Dynasties anomaly tales : ghostly sightings and afterworld vengeance / Chinese ghosts : reconciling psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxian perspectives / Jerrold S. Cooper -- Christopher J. Eyre -- Sze-kar Wan -- Steven Shankman -- Charles W. King -- Alan E. Bernstein -- Fernando Vidal -- Shang-jen Li -- Po-chi Huang -- Mu-chou Poo -- Yuan-ju Liu -- P. Steven Sangren.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Ghosts--Congresses.
Spirits--Congresses.
Religions--Congresses.


Electronic books.

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