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Author : C. A. Burland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333217139
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Myths of Life and Death written by C. A. Burland and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cottie Arthur Burland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333173251
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Myths of Life and Death written by Cottie Arthur Burland and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ulli Beier
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780435900236
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Origin of Life and Death written by Ulli Beier and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1966 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of creation myths from West, East, Central and North Africa.
Author : Cottie Arthur Burland
Publisher : New York : Crown Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Myths of Life & Death written by Cottie Arthur Burland and published by New York : Crown Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810886782
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Myth of an Afterlife written by Michael Martin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because every single one of us will die, most of us would like to know what—if anything—awaits us afterward, not to mention the fate of lost loved ones. Given the nearly universal vested interest in deciding this question in favor of an afterlife, it is no surprise that the vast majority of books on the topic affirm the reality of life after death without a backward glance. But the evidence of our senses and the ever-gaining strength of scientific evidence strongly suggest otherwise. In The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, Michael Martin and Keith Augustine collect a series of contributions that redress this imbalance in the literature by providing a strong, comprehensive, and up-to-date casebook of the chief arguments against an afterlife. Divided into four separate sections, this collection opens with a broad overview of the issues, as contributors consider the strongest evidence of whether or not we survive death—in particular the biological basis of all mental states and their grounding in brain activity that ceases to function at death. Next, contributors consider a host of conceptual and empirical difficulties that confront the various ways of “surviving” death—from bodiless minds to bodily resurrection to any form of posthumous survival. Then essayists turn to internal inconsistencies between traditional theological conceptions of an afterlife—heaven, hell, karmic rebirth—and widely held ethical principles central to the belief systems supporting those notions. In the final section, authors offer critical evaluations of the main types of evidence for an afterlife. Fully interdisciplinary, The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death brings together a variety of fields of research to make that case, including cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mind, personal identity, philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, psychical research, and anomalistic psychology. As the definitive casebook of arguments against life after death, this collection is required reading for any instructor, researcher, and student of philosophy, religious studies, or theology. It is sure to raise provocative issues new to readers, regardless of background, from those who believe fervently in the reality of an afterlife to those who do not or are undecided on the matter.
Author : Mary Miley Theobald
Publisher : Andrews Mcmeel+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1449432735
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (494 download)
Download or read book Death by Petticoat written by Mary Miley Theobald and published by Andrews Mcmeel+ORM. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This myth-busting compendium sets the record straight on American history, from famous-but-false legends to weird-but-true stories. American history is full of oft-repeated errors and outright fabrications—as well as truths that are stranger than fiction. Collaborating with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Mary Miley Theobald has uncovered the real stories behind many well-known myth-understandings. Did pregnant women really seclude themselves indoors? Were uneven stairs made to trip up burglars? Did people only bathe once a year? Death by Petticoat reveals the truth about these and many other funny, surprising, and strange misapprehensions of history.
Author : Giovanni R. F. Ferrari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521839637
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic written by Giovanni R. F. Ferrari and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general.
Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393072908
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths written by Robin Waterfield and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist account of the most famous trial and execution in Western civilization—one with great resonance for American society today. Socrates’ trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. In 399 BCE, the great philosopher stood before an Athenian jury on serious charges: impiety and “subverting the young men of the city.” The picture we have of it—created by his immediate followers, Plato and Xenophon, and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever since—is of a noble man putting his lips to the poisonous cup of hemlock, sentenced to death in a fit of folly by an ancient Athenian democracy already fighting for its own life. But an icon, an image, is not reality, and time has transmuted so many of the facts into historical fable. Aware of these myths, Robin Waterfield has examined the actual Greek sources and presents here a new Socrates, in which he separates the legend from the man himself. As Waterfield recounts the story, the charges of impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens were already enough for a death sentence, but the prosecutors accused him of more. They asserted that Socrates was not just an atheist and the guru of a weird sect but also an elitist who surrounded himself with politically undesirable characters and had mentored those responsible for defeat in the Peloponnesian War. Their claims were not without substance, for Plato and Xenophon, among Socrates’ closest companions, had idolized him as students, while Alcibiades, the hawkish and notoriously self-serving general, had brought Athens to the brink of military disaster. In fact, as Waterfield perceptively shows through an engrossing historical narrative, there was a great deal of truth, from an Athenian perspective, in these charges. The trial was, in part, a response to troubled times—Athens was reeling from a catastrophic war and undergoing turbulent social changes—and Socrates’ companions were unfortunately direct representatives of these troubles. Their words and actions, judiciously sifted and placed in proper context, not only serve to portray Socrates as a flesh-and-blood historical figure but also provide a good lens through which to explore both the trial and the general history of the period. Ultimately, the study of these events and principal figures allows us to finally strip away the veneer that has for so long denied us glimpses of the real Socrates. Why Socrates Died is an illuminating, authoritative account of not only one of the defining periods of Western civilization but also of one of its most defining figures.
Download or read book The Origin of Life and Death written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : N. D. Wilson
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0849965039
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Death by Living written by N. D. Wilson and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of us is in the middle of a story. In this astoundingly unique book, bestselling author N.D. Wilson reminds us that to truly live we must recognize that we are dying. Cause of death: life. Death by Living is a poetic exploration of faith, futility, and the incredible joy of this mortal life. N.D. Wilson recounts stories from his life in poetic prose, giving perspective on the life we're given by God. Death by Living explores the topics of family, grappling with the death of loved ones, and how to live with intention to get the most out of our time on Earth. Wilson encourages us to live hard and die grateful, and to see Christ in every pair of eyes. To write a past we won’t regret. All of us must pause and breathe. See the past, see life as the fruit of providence and thousands of personal narratives. We did not choose where to set our feet in time, but we choose where to set them next. We stand in the now. God says create. Live. Choose. Shape the past. Etch your life in stone, and what you make will be forever. In Death by Living, you will: Experience life with renewed wonder Recognize mundane moments as opportunities Learn to live hard and die grateful Recognize death as a gift instead of something to be feared At once inspiring, humorous, and unbelievably moving, this a book that you will read again and again, finding fresh perspective each time you open it.
Author : Joseph Lewis Henderson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691216177
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Wisdom of the Serpent written by Joseph Lewis Henderson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations. "This is a classic work in analytical psychology that offers crucial insights on the meaning of death symbolism (and its inevitably accompanying rebirth and resurrection symbolism) as part of the great theme of initiation, of which [Henderson] is the world's foremost psychological interpreter. This material is really the next step after the hero myth that Joseph Campbell has made so popular, and provides an understanding of how not to use the hero myth in an inflated way as a psychology of mastery, but as an attainment progressively to be died beyond. [Henderson] is helped by the presence of Maud Oakes, who is a trained anthropologist with exquisite taste in her choice of mythic materials and respect for their original contexts."--John Beebe
Author : Annamaria Hemingway
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846944252
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Myths of the Afterlife Made Easy written by Annamaria Hemingway and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost every religious mythology contains the primordial motif of death and rebirth and portrays the posthumous journey of the deceased following death. Myths of the afterlife exist in all cultures, including that of the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, Babylonians, Romans and Celts and continue to manifest in living faiths such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Although human consciousness has evolved over time, the mystery of death remains beyond rational perception and gives rise to feelings of anxiety and uncertainty. Inquiring whether death may be a transition to rebirth requires looking back into the universal language of myth, which symbolizes the germ of life existing in an afterlife state. As will be shown, this ancient model of the otherworldly journey and resurrection continues to appear in the near-death experience.
Author : Stefan Timmermans
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439905134
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR written by Stefan Timmermans and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoring dignity to sudden death.
Author : J. F. Bierlein
Publisher : Wellspring/Ballantine
ISBN 13 : 0345422074
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Living Myths written by J. F. Bierlein and published by Wellspring/Ballantine. This book was released on 1999 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how key myths of the world present timeless truths that enrich our understanding of the world and the role humans play today.
Author : John S. Dunne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Time and Myth written by John S. Dunne and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neal H. Walls
Publisher : American Society of Overseas Research
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Desire, Discord, and Death written by Neal H. Walls and published by American Society of Overseas Research. This book was released on 2001 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation After a general discussion of methods and approaches, Walls explores the construction of desire in the Gilgamesh Epic; a Freudian analysis of Horus and Seth; and sex, power, and violence in Nergal and Ereshkigal. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Joseph L Henderson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787205584
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The Wisdom of the Serpent written by Joseph L Henderson and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHAMAN AND SERPENT In the tradition of Jungian analysis, a psychiatrist and an anthropologist explore the meanings and manifestations of death through ritual, religion and myth. The knowledge that he must die is the force that drives man to create. The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exists universally in man’s experience, exemplifying the death of the Self and a rebirth into a transcendent, “unknowable” life. In The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth and Resurrection, first published in 1963, the authors trace the images and patterns of psychic liberation through personal encounter, the cycles of nature, spiritual teaching religious texts, myths of resurrection, poems and epics. They translate these elements of common human experience into a them for modern man: the reinterpretation of the individual freed from the mortal boundaries of the Self. First published in 1963, this classic work in analytical psychology includes notes on the illustrations, appendix and references.
