What is it like to be dead? : near-death experiences, Christianity, and the occult, /
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| Author / Creator: | Schlieter, Jens, author. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] |
| Description: | xxxii, 344 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford studies in Western esotericism Oxford studies in Western esotericism. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11687461 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Outline of the Argument and Remarks on Method
- Part 1. Near-Death Experiences As Religious Discourse
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Experiences of Dying and Death
- 1.3. The Formation of Near Death Experiences: Moody, Ritchie, and Hampe
- 1.4. Near Death Experiences and the Religious Metacultures of Western Modernity
- Part 2. The Different Strands Of Death: Western Discourse On Experiences Near Death (1580-1975)
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Currents of Early Modern Near-Death Discourse
- 2.3. The Integration of Theosophical Narratives on Travels of the "Spiritual Body" (ca. 1860-1905)
- 2.4. The Advent of Parapsychology and the Figuration of "Out-of-the-Body Experiences" (1880-1936)
- 2.5. The Theosophical Discovery of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (1927)
- 2.6. Consolidation of Near-Death Discourse (1930-1960)
- 2.7. The Final Configuration of Near-Death Experiences (1960-1975)
- Part 3. "Near-Death Experiences As Religious Protest Against Materialism And Modern Medicine In The 1960s And 1970s
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Pushing Near-Death Experiences (I): Privatized Death
- 3.3. Pushing Near-Death Experiences (II): Reanimation, "Coma," and "Brain Death"
- 3.4. Pushing Near-Death Experiences (III): LSD- and Other Drug-Induced Experiences
- 3.5. The Imperative of "Individual Experience": Institutional Change of Religion in the 1960s and 1970s
- Part 4. Wish-Fulfilling Expectations, Experiences, Retroactive Imputations: In Search Of Hermeneutics For Near-Death Experiences
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Excursus: The "Death-x-Pulse," or: How to Imagine the Unimaginable?
- 4.3. The Survival Value of Narratives?
- Part 5. The Significance Of Near-Death Experiences For Religious Discourse
- 5.1. The Presence of Religious Metacultures in Near Death Discourse (1580-1975)
- 5.2. The Religious Functions of Near-Death Experiences
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index
