Near-death experience in indigenous religions /
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| Author / Creator: | Shushan, Gregory, author. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] ©2018 |
| Description: | xi, 304 pages ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11673620 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Exploring Near-Death Experiences across Cultures
- Introduction
- Understanding Cultural and Individual Variation in Near-Death Experiences
- Near-Death Experiences and the Experiential Source Hypothesis
- Reasoning, Skepticism, and the Hermeneutics of Religious Experience
- Indigenous Religions and the Nature of the Sources
- Myths, Legends, Near-Death Experiences, and Shamanism
- Analysis, Contexts, and Organization
- 2. North America
- Introduction
- Eastern Woodlands
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Southwest
- Great Plains and Great Basin
- Northwest
- California
- Analysis and Conclusions
- 3. Africa
- Introduction
- Western
- Central
- Eastern
- Southern
- Analysis and Conclusions
- 4. Oceania
- Introduction
- Polynesia
- Micronesia
- Melanesia
- Australia
- Analysis and Conclusions
- 5. Interpretations, Implications, and Conclusions
- Regional Comparison and Analysis
- Near-Death Experiences and Indigenous Revitalization Movements
- Afterlife Beliefs and the Experiential Source Hypothesis: A Historiographical Survey
- Near-Death Experience and Shamanism
- Cognitive Evolution and Neurotheology
- Conceptual Logic, Myth, and Ritual
- Near-Death Experience, Culture, and Social Organization
- Diffusionism Revisited
- Cross-Cultural Near-Death Experiences and the Survival Hypothesis
- Interdisciplinary Models
- Summary, Conclusions, and Epistemological Implications
- Notes
- References
- Index
