Religion, history, and culture. 

xii, 282 pages ; 23 cm.; "Selections from The Encyclopedia of religion."; Part 1 : Death, funerals, and the dead --Death /Th. P. van Baaren --Human sacrifice /Kay A. Read --Suicide /Marilyn J. Harran --Funeral rites /Louis-Vincent Thomas --Tombs /Tamara M. Green --Relics /John S. Strong --Ancestor worshipHelen Hardacre --Mythic ancestors /Charles H. Long --Necromancy /Erika Bourguignon --Part 2 : The afterlife and transitions to the otherworld --The afterlife /Jane I. Smith --Geographies of death /Th. P. van Baaren --Eschatology /R.J. Zwi Werblowsky --Ascension /Ioan Petru Culianu --Descent into the underworld /Anna-Leena Siikala --The judgment of the dead /Helmer Ringgren --Transmigration /R.J. Zwi Werblowsky --Reincarnation /J. Bruce Long --Apotheosis /Robert Turcan --Heaven and hell /Linda M. Tober and Stanley Lusby --The underworld /J. Bruce Long --Part 3 : Concepts of the soul and its destiny --Concepts of soul in the ancient Near East /Stevan L. Davies --Chinese concepts of the soul and the afterlife /Anna Seidel --Concepts of the soul in Indian religions /William K. Mahony --Greek and Hellenistic concepts of the soul /Jan Bremmar --Judiac concepts of the soul /Jack Bemporad --Christian concepts of the soul /Geddes MacGregor --Islamic concepts of the soul /Michael E. Marmura --Concepts of the soul in tribal communities /Claude Rivière --Ghosts /Geoffrey Parrinder --Immortality /Julien Ries.; 

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