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ocm1013720994 |
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20190927095831.0 |
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180111t20182018nyu b 001 0 eng |
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2018000804 |
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0231185715 |
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paperback |
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9780231185714 |
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paperback |
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9780231185707 |
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0231185707 |
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(OCoLC)on1013720994 |
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DLC |
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eng |
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rda |
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DLC |
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BDX |
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ERASA |
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MiTN |
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pcc |
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BL535 |
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.J35 2018 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Janes, Regina M., |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Inventing afterlives : |
| Remainder of title |
the stories we tell ourselves about life after death / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Regina M. Janes. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Columbia University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2018] |
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℗♭2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xvii, 371 pages ; |
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23 cm. |
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text |
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txt |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia. |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
Concerning the Present State of Life After Death -- |
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Impermanent Eternities: Egypt, Sumer, and Babylon, Ancient Israel, Greece, and Rome -- |
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Touring Asian Afterlives: Eternal Impermanence -- |
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Pursuing Happiness: How the Enlightenment Invented an Afterlife to Wish for -- |
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Wanda⁺єfuru Raifu or Afterlife Inventions and Variations. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Why is belief in an afterlife so persistent across times and cultures? And how can it coexist with disbelief in an afterlife? Most modern thinkers hold that afterlife belief serves such important psychological and social purposes as consoling survivors, enforcing morality, dispensing justice, or giving life meaning. Yet the earliest, and some more recent, afterlives strikingly fail to satisfy those needs. Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter rooted in the question that a dead body raises: where has the life gone? Humans then and now, in communities and as individuals, ponder what they would want or experience were they in that body. From this endlessly recurring situation, afterlife narratives develop in all their complexity, variety, and ingenuity. Exploring afterlives from Egypt to Sumer, among Jews, Greeks, and Romans, to Christianity's advent and Islam's rise, Janes reveals how little concern ancient afterlives had with morality. In south and east Asia, karmic rebirth makes morality self-enforcing and raises a new problem: how to stop re-dying. The British enlightenment, Janes argues, invented the now widespread wish-fulfilling afterlife and illustrates how afterlives change. She also considers the surprising afterlife of afterlives among modern artists and writers who no longer believe in worlds beyond this one. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions; contemporary literature and film; primatology; cognitive science; and evolutionary psychology, Janes shows that in asking what happens after we die, we define the worlds we inhabit and the values by which we live. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Future life. |