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Experiencing the Beyond : Intercultural Approaches / Carlos Ruta, Gert Melville.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology ; 4Publisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2017]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (X, 269 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110528534
  • 9783110528671
  • 9783110530773
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.04 23
LOC classification:
  • GN345.2
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 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? -- The Question of Beyond -- Ideas – Presences – Practices -- The Horror of Flawlessness -- Living with Demons -- Transcendences in the Italian Renaissance -- 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: Experiencing the dimension that lies beyond our empirical grasp of the world has always been a challenge for human beings, for it can expose the limitations of our agency. Such experience, while potentially terrifying, can also furnish a basis for religious faith or hope of a better future. The intercultural essays in this volume analyze ways of dealing with the beyond, including magic, religion, myth, and all-promising utopias.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 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? -- The Question of Beyond -- Ideas – Presences – Practices -- The Horror of Flawlessness -- Living with Demons -- Transcendences in the Italian Renaissance -- 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

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Experiencing the dimension that lies beyond our empirical grasp of the world has always been a challenge for human beings, for it can expose the limitations of our agency. Such experience, while potentially terrifying, can also furnish a basis for religious faith or hope of a better future. The intercultural essays in this volume analyze ways of dealing with the beyond, including magic, religion, myth, and all-promising utopias.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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