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245 00 $aRethinking ghosts in world religions /$cedited by Mu-chou Poo.
260 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$c2009.
300 $axvi, 342 p. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aNumen book series. Studies in the history of religions,$x0169-8834 ;$vv. 123
500 $aProceedings of a conference held in Dec. 2005.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tWind and smoke : giving up the ghost of Enkidu, comprehending Enkidu's ghosts /$rJerrold S. Cooper --$tBelief and the dead in Pharaonic Egypt /$rChristopher J. Eyre --$tWhere have all the ghosts gone? : evolution of a concept in biblical literature /$rSze-kar Wan --$tGhosts and responsibility : the Hebrew Bible, Confucius, Plato /$rSteven Shankman --$tThe Roman manes : the dead as gods /$rCharles W. King --$tThe ghostly troop and the battle over death : William of Auvergne (d. 1249) connects Christian, Old Norse, and Irish views /$rAlan E. Bernstein --$tGhosts of the European Enlightenment /$rFernando Vidal --$tGhost, vampire, and scientific naturalism : observation and evidence in the supernatural fiction of Grant Allen, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle /$rShang-jen Li --$tThe cult of Vetāla and Tantric fantasy /$rPo-chi Huang --$tThe culture of ghosts in the Six Dynasties period (c. 220-589 C.E.) /$rMu-chou Poo --$tAllegorical narrative in Six Dynasties anomaly tales : ghostly sightings and afterworld vengeance /$rYuan-ju Liu --$tChinese ghosts : reconciling psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxian perspectives /$rP. Steven Sangren.
520 1 $a"The central theme of this volume is to re-examine the received concepts and images of ghosts in various religious cultures ranging from the Ancient Near East and Egypt to the Old Testament, the Classical Era, Early Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Early India, and Medieval China. As a religious phenomenon, the realm of ghosts has been less studied than the realm of the divine. Through a collaborative effort by scholars from different disciplines, this volume proposes a multi-cultural approach to construct a wider and complicated picture of the phenomenon of ghosts and spirits in human societies and to have a grasp of the various problems involved in understanding the phenomenon of ghost."--Jacket.
650 0 $aGhosts$vCongresses.
650 0 $aSpirits$vCongresses.
650 0 $aReligions$vCongresses.
655 7 $aConference proceedings.$2fast
700 1 $aPu, Muzhou.
830 0 $aStudies in the history of religions ;$v123.
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