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The Palgrave Handbook of the Afterlife

Part of the Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion Book Series

Editors: Nagasawa, Yujin; Matheson, Benjamin

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-48609-7

ISBN: 978-1-137-48608-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Aug 15, 2017

1 - 10 of 22 Chapters

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Introduction

Matheson, Benjamin

Pages: 1 –18

[It seems uncontroversial that you currently exist. If you were to attempt to doubt this then you would in fact prove your own existence, because a doubt requires a doubter to exist, as Descartes famously argued. Things are not so uncontroversial, however, when it comes to the possibility of our...
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The Afterlife in Early Civilizations

Shushan, Gregory

Pages: 21 –40

[This article reviews afterlife beliefs as found in the texts of the world’s earliest civilizations: Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt, Sumer, Vedic India, pre-Buddhist China, and Maya and Nahua Mesoamerica. Despite the fact that these civilizations had little or no cultural contact with the others...
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Classical Mediterranean Conceptions of the Afterlife

Clark, Stephen R. L.

Pages: 41 –57

[According to Plotinus’ exegesis of Homer’s Odyssey 11.601-2, Heracles’ image or shadow is in Hades, but he himself is among the gods (Ennead I.1[53].12; see also IV.3 [27].32). I shall explore the distinctions between living body, shadow and self as these affect Mediterranean thought about the...
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Hinduism

Barua, Ankur

Pages: 61 –83

[The exploration of the views that have been developed within religious systems about the afterlife is, in effect, also a study of their distinctive understandings of the hic et nunc, for death is viewed by these systems not as an absolute termination but as a stage on the individual’s ongoing...
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Buddhism

Harvey, Peter

Pages: 85 –105

[From its beginning, Buddhism has had clear and explicit afterlife beliefs. The nature of a person’s afterlife is seen to depend on their actions, as in most religions, but the possible forms of afterlife are more numerous than in most religions, and the final goal of Buddhism, Nirvana, is seen...
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Judaism

Goldschmidt, Tyron; Segal, Aaron

Pages: 107 –127

[The traditional Jewish view of the afterlife has a labyrinthine landscape and a complex chronology, including no less than: reincarnation, purgatory, annihilation, a world of departed souls, the messianic age, the bodily resurrection of the dead, and the world to come. Our paper first addresses...
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Christianity

Farris, Joshua

Pages: 129 –152

[Human history reveals a common belief in the afterlife and an ancillary commitment to the soul. Christians agree, yet they have a distinct contribution to a philosophy of the afterlife. Rather than covering all the traditions within Christianity, Farris limits his discussion to one strand of...
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Islam

Dastmalchian, Amir

Pages: 153 –173

[The afterlife is one of the most prominent themes in the central text of the Islamic religion, the Quran. The Quranic focus on the afterlife is manifested through verses which pertain to (i) the character of the present life; (ii) accountability and final judgment; (iii) a desirable afterlife;...
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Heaven

Henderson, Luke

Pages: 177 –196

[The intent of this essay is to examine what most would call an essential component to the theistic notion of a perfected agent in heaven: impeccability. In Part 1 I will attempt to softly defend the Christian dependence on the doctrine of impeccability, followed by an examination of what I...
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Divine Love and Hell

Buckareff, Andrei A.; Plug, Allen

Pages: 197 –214

[In his posthumously published essay, “Divine Evil,” David Lewis presents an argument from evil against theism that focuses on the problem of hell. In our paper, we use Lewis’s challenge to the theist to help motivate our escapist alternative to the traditional doctrine of hell that we have...

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