Inventing Afterlives The Stories We Tell Ourselves about Life after Death |
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| Author:
| Janes, Regina M. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-18571-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2018 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $37.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.