Description
| Product ID: | 9780231185714 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Inventing Afterlives |
| Subtitle: | The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Life After Death |
| Authors: | Author: Regina M. Janes |
| Page Count: | 392 |
| Subjects: | Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history & criticism, Religion and beliefs, Religion: general, Comparative religion, Sociology: death and dying, Psychology, The afterlife, reincarnation and past lives, Religion & beliefs, Religion: general, Comparative religion, Sociology: death & dying, Psychology, The afterlife, reincarnation & past lives |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions and contemporary literature and film as well as cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, Inventing Afterlives shows that in asking what happens after we die we define the worlds we inhabit and the values by which we live. |
| Imprint Name: | Columbia University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Columbia University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-07-31 |