The Eclipse of Eternity

A Sociology of the Afterlife

T. Walter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

222 Seiten

1996 | 1996 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-312-15933-7 (ISBN)

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Many people still believe in life after death, but modern institutions operate as though this were the only world - eternity is now eclipsed from view in society and even in the church. This book carefully observes the eclipse - what caused it, how full is it, what are its consequences, will it last? How significant is recent interest in near-death experiences and reincarnation?

TONY WALTER

Introduction - The Afterlife: a Theological Survey - The Afterlife: Popular Beliefs Today - Secularisation and the Terror of Death - Idealist and Materialist Explanations - Medicine: the Secularisation of Hope - Funerals and Burials: the Secularisation of Ritual (1) - Cremation and Dissection: the Secularisation of Ritual (2) - Loss: the Secularisation of Meaning - Retrospect and Prospect - Pastoral Care - Heavens on Earth - Ethics without Eternity - The Reappearance of the Hereafter - The Eclipse of Eternity - Bibliography - Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.3.1996
Zusatzinfo	IX, 222 p.
Verlagsort	Gordonsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-312-15933-1 / 0312159331
ISBN-13	978-0-312-15933-7 / 9780312159337
Zustand	Neuware