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  title info:
    title: What is it like to be dead?
    sub title: near-death experiences, Christianity, and the occult
  name:
    name part: Schlieter, Jens
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxxii, 344 pages).
  abstract: "In What Is It Like To Be Dead?, Jens Schlieter argues that to understand recent testimonies of near-death experiences, we need to be aware of the history of innumerable reports of earlier near-death experiences that were communicated and handed down in scores of newspapers, journals, and books. Collections of such testimonies have been published for more than 150 years, accompanied by attempts to classify and interpret them. Schlieter analyzes the religious relevance of near-death experiences -for the experiencers themselves, but also for the growing audience attracted by these testimonies. Near-death experiences bear ontological, epistemic, intersubjective, and moral significance, ranging from reassurance that religious experience is still possible to claims that they initiate a new spiritual orientation in life, or offer evidence for the transcultural validity of afterlife beliefs." -- Publisher's description
  table of contents: Introduction -- Outline of the argument and remarks on method -- Part I. Near-death experiences as religious discourse : Experiences of dying and death ; The formation of near-death experiences: Moody, Ritchie, and Hampe ; Near-death experiences and the religious metacultures of Western modernity -- Part II. The different strands of death: Western discourse on experiences near death (1580-1975) : Currents of early modern near-death discourse ; The integration of theosophical narratives on travels of the "spiritual body" (ca. 1860-1905) ; The advent of parapsychology and the figuration of "out-of-the-body experiences" (1880-1930) The theosophical discovery of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (1927) ; Consolidation of near-death discourse (1930-1960) ; The final configuration of near-death experience (1960-1975) -- Part III. "Near-death experiences" as religious protest against materialism and modern medicine in the 1960s and 1970s : Pushing near-death experiences (I): privatized death ; Pushing near-death experiences (II): reanimation, "coma," and "brain death" ; Pushing near-death experiences (III): LSD- and other drug-induced experiences ; The imperative of "individual experience": institutional change of religion in the 1960s and 1970s -- Part IV. Wish-fulfilling expectations, experiences, retroactive imputations: in search of hermeneutics for near-death experiences : Excursus: the death-x-pulse," or How to imagine the unimaginable? The survival value of the narratives? -- Part V. The significance of near-death experiences for religious discourse : The presence of religious metacultures in near-death discourse (1580-1975) ; The religious functions of near-death experiences.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Jens Schlieter.
  note: Previously issued in print: 2018.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Near-death experiences
  subject:
    topic: Expériences de mort imminente
  subject:
    topic: History & Surveys
  subject:
    topic: Agnosticism
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
  subject:
    topic: Death
  subject:
    topic: Christian Life
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Near-death experiences
  classification: BF1045.N4 S393 2018eb
  classification: 133.9013
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in Western esotericism
  identifier: 9780190888879
  identifier: 0190888873
  identifier: 9780190888848
  identifier: 0190888849
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 180726
    record change date: 20260319180130.8
    record identifier: in00005716577
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng