The Palgrave Handbook of the Afterlife.

Intro -- The Palgrave Handbook of the Afterlife -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Note -- Part I The History of the Afterlife -- 2 The Afterlife in Early Civilizations -- Introduction: Early Civilizations -- Old Kingdom Egypt -- Sumer -- Vedic India -- Pre-Buddhist China -- Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica -- Understanding Afterlife Conceptions Across Cultures -- References -- 3 Classical Mediterranean Conceptions of the Afterlife -- Many Selves and Many Stories -- The Eternal Return -- No-Self Panpsychism -- Gods in Exile -- Coda -- Notes -- References -- Part II The Afterlife in World Religions -- 4 Hinduism -- Introducing 'Hinduism' -- The Afterlife in the Mythic Imagination -- The Ṛgveda and the Brāhmaṇas -- The Vedic Literature and Funeral Rites -- The Structure of Reincarnation and the Afterlife in the Purāṇas -- The Afterlife and the Metaphysics of the Self -- The Conquest of Death: The Myth in the Metaphysics -- The Afterlife in Everyday Life -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- 5 Buddhism -- The Idea of Past and Future Lives/Rebirths -- No Creator -- The Range of Possible Kinds of Rebirths -- Karma as Determining Rebirth -- The Lower Rebirths -- Human Rebirth -- Heavenly Rebirths -- Buddhist Goals in the Context of Rebirth -- A Being as a Stream of Changing, Processes, not a Permanent Self or Immortal Soul -- The Transition Between Lives -- What Happens When an Enlightened Person Dies? -- Memory of Past Lives -- Belief in Rebirth and Karma, and how this Affects Attitudes -- Abbreviations -- Note -- References -- 6 Judaism -- Introduction -- Contemporary Skepticism -- Historical Sources -- The Significance of the Afterlife -- Cosmology and Eschatology -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 7 Christianity -- Eschatology and the Afterlife -- Christian Afterlife: What it is not!.

"Life Everlasting" -- Mere Resurrection Afterlife -- Intermediate State -- Why Think Souls Would Survive the Death of Bodies? -- Mere Resurrection Hope -- Disembodied Hope with Resurrection Hope -- Anthropological Models and Disembodied Existence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 Islam -- Introduction -- Considerations about approaching the Quran -- An Overview of the Afterlife in the Quran -- The Prominence of the Afterlife in the Quran -- Constructing a Narrative on the Afterlife in the Quran -- Afterlife as Matter of Faith -- World -- Encouragement to Believe in, and Strive for, the Afterlife -- What is the Afterlife Like? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part III Models of the Afterlife -- 9 Heaven -- Introduction -- Part 1 - Impeccability -- Perpetuity -- Deontology -- Virtue -- Part 2 - Deontology and Impeccability -- Less Control in Heaven -- Why Didn't God Create Heaven First? -- Part 3 - Virtue and Impeccability -- Perfect Virtue is Implausible -- Perfect Virtue is Impossible -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 10 Divine Love and Hell -- Issuantism and the Proportionality of Punishment to the Crime -- Escapism, Diminished Capacities, Free Will, and Love -- The Diminished Capacities Objection -- How Valuable is Free Will? -- The Argument from Love -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 11 Purgatory -- Introduction -- Metaphysical and Moral Problems -- The Corruptionist Account of the Afterlife -- The Survivalist Account of the Afterlife -- Concluding Recommendations -- Notes -- References -- 12 Rebirth -- 'Rebirth' and Related Terms -- Varieties of Belief in Rebirth -- Rebirth in South Asian Thought -- Evolutionary Rebirth -- Rebirth within a Single Life -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 13 Digital Afterlives -- Introduction -- Digital Resurrection -- Digital Reincarnation -- Digital Deism -- Digital Theosis.

Digital Theogony -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part IV The Metaphysics of the Afterlife -- 14 Substance Dualism -- What is Substance Dualism? -- Justifying Substance Dualism -- The Achilles Heel of Substance Dualism -- Modern Substance Dualism and Personal Immortality -- Conceptions of Resurrection -- Resurrection and Substance Dualism -- Notes -- References -- 15 Emergent Dualism -- Notes -- References -- 16 Resurrecting Material Persons -- The Christian Doctrine of Resurrection -- What is a Person? -- Personal Identity Over Time -- Sameness of Persons in the Afterlife -- Distinctness of Bodies on Earth in the Afterlife -- No Immaterial Souls -- How God Can Resurrect Material Persons -- Notes -- References -- Part V The Meaning of the Afterlife -- 17 The Fear of Death -- Introduction -- A Rational Fear of Death -- Mourning the Self -- Surviving Death - 'Naturally' -- Transcending Death -- 'Death to self' as necessary for transcending death -- Love as the Death-Transcending Good for Humanity -- Understanding How Love Overcomes the Fear of Death -- Was it Wrong, Then, to Hold it Rational to Regard Death as a Harm? -- Can the Prospect of Transformation Through Radical Loss of Self Really be Comforting? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 18 Meaning in Life -- Introduction -- Clarifying the Question -- 'Meaning in Life' -- 'Afterlife' -- An Eternal Afterlife as Necessary for Meaning in Life -- Perfect Justice -- Ultimate Consequence -- An Eternal Afterlife as Sufficient for No Meaning in Life -- Boredom -- Shapelessness -- Lack of Virtue -- Repetition -- An Eternal Afterlife as Enhancing Meaning in Life -- Notes -- References -- 19 The Problem of Evil -- Notes -- References -- 20 Practical Identity -- Introduction -- Immortality, Boredom, and Personal Identity -- The First Horn -- The Second Horn -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

Part VI The Science of the Afterlife -- 21 Do Near-Death Experiences Provide Evidence of an Afterlife? -- Life after Life -- Near-Death Studies -- Out of the Body? -- Near-Death Experiences -- Philosophy and Substance Dualism -- Philosophy and Near-Death Experiences -- Questions for Substance Dualism -- Near Death Experiences and Substance Dualism -- Mindsight? -- In Search of Experimental Confirmation -- All in the Mind? -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 22 How Psychological Dispositions Influence the Theology of the Afterlife -- Introduction -- Cognitive Theories on Afterlife Beliefs -- Humans are Not Intuitive Physicalists (Although it is Unclear What They are) -- Death as Unimaginable -- Mental Time Travel and Positive Prospection -- Death Anxiety -- The Problem of Personal Identity in Theological Resurrection Accounts -- Folk and Theological Concepts of the Afterlife -- Mormonism: Physicalist Monism and Eternalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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