The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead: The belief among the Polynesians
| Author | : James George Frazer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 470 |
| Release | : 1922 |
| Genre | : Ancestor worship |
| ISBN | : |
The Belief In Immortality And The Worship Of The Dead Volume 2
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The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead
| Author | : James George Frazer |
| Publisher | : Good Press |
| Total Pages | : 959 |
| Release | : 2023-12-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
In 'The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead' by James George Frazer, the renowned anthropologist explores the universal belief in an afterlife and the rituals associated with honoring deceased ancestors. Written in a scholarly and comprehensive style, Frazer delves into various cultures, traditions, and historical practices to examine the continuity and evolution of beliefs surrounding death. Drawing on a wide range of ethnographic data, this book provides a profound insight into the human psyche and the ways in which different societies navigate the concept of mortality. Frazer's meticulous research and comparative analysis offer valuable perspectives on the significance of ancestor worship in shaping cultural identities and religious practices. Through his interdisciplinary approach, Frazer sheds light on the complexities of human spirituality and the enduring relevance of ancestral veneration in contemporary societies. Readers interested in anthropology, religious studies, and the history of belief systems will find this book enlightening and thought-provoking.
The Eternal Belief in Immortality & Worship of the Dead
| Author | : James George Frazer |
| Publisher | : e-artnow |
| Total Pages | : 950 |
| Release | : 2021-05-07 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : |
The first volume of Frazer's book comprises the Gifford Lectures he gave at the University of St. Andrews in the years 1911 and 1912, and deals with the belief in immortality and the worship of the dead, as these are found among the aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea, and Melanesia. In the second volume, the author describes the corresponding belief and worship among the Polynesians, a people related to their neighbors the Melanesians by language, if not by blood. Contents: The Savage Conception of Death Myths of the Origin of Death The Belief in Immortality among the Aborigines of Central Australia The Belief in Immortality among the other Aborigines of Australia The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of the Torres Straits Islands The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of British New Guinea The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of German New Guinea The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of German and Dutch New Guinea The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of Southern Melanesia (New Caledonia) The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of Central Melanesia The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of Northern and Eastern Melanesia The Belief in Immortality among the Natives of Eastern Melanesia (Fiji) The Belief in Immortality among the Maoris The Belief in Immortality among the Tongans The Belief in Immortality among the Samoans The Belief in Immortality among the Hervey Islanders The Belief in Immortality among the Society Islanders The Belief in Immortality among the Marquesans The Belief in Immortality among the Hawaiians
Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England: Volume 2
| Author | : Maurice Cowling |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521545174 |
A further contribution to understanding the role played by Christianity in modern English thought.
The Belief in Inmortality and the Worship of the Dead
| Author | : James George Frazer |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2020-07-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 375237926X |
Reproduction of the original: The Belief in Inmortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Volume 2
| Author | : Sir James George Frazer |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 686 |
| Release | : 2018-07-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781722339593 |
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Volume 2 By Sir James George Frazer Racial affinities of the Torres Straits Islanders, pp. 170 sq.; their material and social culture, 171 sq.; no developed worship of the dead among them, 172 sq.; their fear of ghosts, 173-175; home of the dead a mythical island in the west, 175 sq.; elaborate funeral ceremonies of the Torres Straits Islanders characterised by dramatic representations of the dead and by the preservation of their skulls, which were consulted as oracles, 176. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying
| Author | : Christopher M Moreman |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 693 |
| Release | : 2017-05-18 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1317528875 |
Few issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains, to defining death, to suggesting what happens after life. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying provides readers with an overview of the study of death and dying. Questions of death, mortality, and more recently of end-of-life care, have long been important ones and scholars from a range of fields have approached the topic in a number of ways. Comprising over fifty-two chapters from a team of international contributors, the companion covers: funerary and mourning practices; concepts of the afterlife; psychical issues associated with death and dying; clinical and ethical issues; philosophical issues; death and dying as represented in popular culture. This comprehensive collection of essays will bring together perspectives from fields as diverse as history, philosophy, literature, psychology, archaeology and religious studies, while including various religious traditions, including established religions like Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism as well as new or less widely known traditions such as the Spiritualist Movement, the Church of Latter Day Saints, and Raëlianism. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, philosophy and literature.
Ghostly Encounters
| Author | : Mark Sandy |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2020-12-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1000295478 |
This volume reflects on the ghostly and its varied manifestations including the uncanny, the revenant, the echo, and other forms of artistic allusion. These unsettling presences of the spectral other occur in literature, history, film, and art. The ghostly (and its artistic, literary, filmic, and cultural representations) remains of burgeoning interest and debate to twenty-first century literary critics, cultural historians, art historians, and linguists. Our collection of essays considers the wider implications of these representations of the ghostly and notions of the spectral to define a series of different, but inter-related, cultural topics (concerned with questions of ageing, the uncanny, the spectral, spiritualism, eschatology), which imaginatively testify to our compulsion to search for evidence of the ghostly in our everyday encounters with the material world.
A Social History of Dying
| Author | : Allan Kellehear |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 25 |
| Release | : 2007-02-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139461427 |
Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as otherworld journey to the contemporary Cosmopolitan Age of dying in nursing homes, Allan Kellehear takes the reader on a 2 million year journey of discovery that covers the major challenges we will all eventually face: anticipating, preparing, taming and timing for our eventual deaths. This book, first published in 2007, is a major review of the human and clinical sciences literature about human dying conduct. The historical approach of this book places our recent images of cancer dying and medical care in broader historical, epidemiological and global context. Professor Kellehear argues that we are witnessing a rise in shameful forms of dying. It is not cancer, heart disease or medical science that presents modern dying conduct with its greatest moral tests, but rather poverty, ageing and social exclusion.
