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Experiencing the Beyond : Intercultural Approaches.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Challenges of Life: Essays on Philosophical and Cultural Anthropology SeriesPublisher: Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110530773
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Experiencing the BeyondLOC classification:
  • GN345.2 .E974 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- General Aspects -- There is no "Being Itself" Beyond Beings - The Progressive Oblivion of an Original Metaphysics -- The Beyond: Death, Aesthetics and Phenomenology -- Beyonds, Factishes, and Fetishes -- Beyond the Self Circle -- Spirit World as the Beyond from an Anthropological Perspective -- Beyond the Species, or the 'Beyond' of Human Life? -- Historical Structures -- The Question of Beyond -- Ideas - Presences - Practices -- The Horror of Flawlessness -- Living with Demons -- Transcendences in the Italian Renaissance -- Cultural Identities -- The Mission as "Beyond" and Beyond the Mission -- Expelling Demons and Attracting Demons in Jewish Magical Texts -- Many Paths, Many Souls: Traditional Chinese Views of the Other World -- Liberation through Realizing the Emptiness of Dependent Origination -- Here, There, and "Beyond" - Japanese Views on the Afterlife -- Can the Metaphysical Be Rationally Proven? -- Ontological Thresholds in Contemporary Shamanisms -- The Beyond as Partner of the Here and Now -- About the Authors.
Summary: How have different civilizations throughout different epochs mastered fundamental challenges of life? The series analyses the basic questions of cultural anthropology.  All epochs and the most significant civilizations worldwide, as well as different epistemological aspects including historical sciences, sociology, ethnology, art, literature and philosophy are brought together.
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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- General Aspects -- There is no "Being Itself" Beyond Beings - The Progressive Oblivion of an Original Metaphysics -- The Beyond: Death, Aesthetics and Phenomenology -- Beyonds, Factishes, and Fetishes -- Beyond the Self Circle -- Spirit World as the Beyond from an Anthropological Perspective -- Beyond the Species, or the 'Beyond' of Human Life? -- Historical Structures -- The Question of Beyond -- Ideas - Presences - Practices -- The Horror of Flawlessness -- Living with Demons -- Transcendences in the Italian Renaissance -- Cultural Identities -- The Mission as "Beyond" and Beyond the Mission -- Expelling Demons and Attracting Demons in Jewish Magical Texts -- Many Paths, Many Souls: Traditional Chinese Views of the Other World -- Liberation through Realizing the Emptiness of Dependent Origination -- Here, There, and "Beyond" - Japanese Views on the Afterlife -- Can the Metaphysical Be Rationally Proven? -- Ontological Thresholds in Contemporary Shamanisms -- The Beyond as Partner of the Here and Now -- About the Authors.

How have different civilizations throughout different epochs mastered fundamental challenges of life? The series analyses the basic questions of cultural anthropology.  All epochs and the most significant civilizations worldwide, as well as different epistemological aspects including historical sciences, sociology, ethnology, art, literature and philosophy are brought together.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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