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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AFTERLIFE

by Jan Ν. Bremmer

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  • 20th century
  • Language: English

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Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and Israel - the cultures that gave us Christianity - had only the vaguest ideas of an afterlife. So where did these concepts come from and why did they develop?In this fascinating, learned, but highly readable book, Jan N. Bremmer - one of the foremost authorities on ancient religion - takes a fresh look at the major developments in the Western imagination of the afterlife, from the ancient Greeks to the modern near-death experience.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences, Shamanism and spirit practice, and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    A contributing source assigned this topic during controlled cataloging, but the exact triggering term is not present in the merged metadata.

  • Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “near-death experiences”. Retained metadata contains “afterlife” in the title, “afterlife” in the description, “near-death” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “near-death experiences”· via OpenAlex
    • “afterlife”· in title
    • “afterlife”· in description
    • “near-death”· in description
    • “afterlife”· in subject
    • “afterlife”· in edition title
  • Shamanism and spirit practice

    A contributing source assigned this topic during controlled cataloging, but the exact triggering term is not present in the merged metadata.

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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OpenAlex scholarly book record

1957-01-01—English—Unknown

OpenAlex scholarly book record

2003-09-02—English—Unknown

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openalex:W1967628351
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