The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife: The 1995 Read-Tuckwell Lectures at the University of Bristol - Hardcover

Bremmer, Jan N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415141478 ISBN 13: 9780415141475

Verlag: Routledge, 2001

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Book by Bremmer Jan N

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"the book is a pleasant read, and it provides a fascinating sketch of endlessly interesting subject matter. Students and scholars of ancient religion, philosophy, and early Christianity will certainly want to read it, and more general readers will no doubt enjoy it greatly as well." -Peter Aronoff, Marymount College, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, July, 2002 "A relatively brief but wide-ranging book on a complex subject....a useful study." -Religious Studies Review

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Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and Israel - the cultures that gave us Christianity - had only the vaguest ideas of an afterlife. So where did these concepts come from and why did they develop?
In this fascinating, learned, but highly readable book, Jan N. Bremmer - one of the foremost authorities on ancient religion - takes a fresh look at the major developments in the Western imagination of the afterlife, from the ancient Greeks to the modern near-death experience.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0415141478
• ISBN 13: 9780415141475
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252