TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collins,John J.
AU  - Fishbane,Michael A.
TI  - Death, ecstasy, and other worldly journeys
SN  - 0585062706
AV  - BL504 .D37 1995eb
U1  - 291.2/3 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Death
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Ecstasy
KW  - Near-death experiences
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Religion
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Philosophy & Religion
KW  - Religion - General
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Wisdom's place / Jonathan Z. Smith -- Ascent to the stars in a Mesopotamian ritual : social metaphor and religious experience / Tzvi Abusch -- A throne in the heavens : apotheosis in pre-Christian Judaism / John J. Collins --The seven heavens in Jewish and Christian apocalypses / Adela Y. Collins -- Paul and the beginning of Jewish mysticism / Alan F. Segal -- The practice of ascent in the ancient Mediterranean world / Martha Himmelfarb -- Mystical descents / Guy C. Stroumsa -- The crown of immortality : toward a redescription of Christian martyrdom / Arthur J. Droge -- Abathur, a new etymology / Nathaniel Deutsch -- The imagination of death in Jewish spirituality / Michael Fishbane -- Weeping, death, and spiritual ascent in sixteenth century Jewish mysticism / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Between authority and indeterminacy : some reflections on Kabbalistic hermeneutics / Moshe Idel -- Hekhalot and Mi�r�aj : observations on the heavenly journey in Judaism and Islam / David J. Halperin -- The role of the "anima mundi" as mediator between the divine and created realms in the twelfth century / Bernard McGinn -- Death and the distribution of sacral power in early Japanese mythistory / Gary L. Ebersole -- To hell and back : death, near-death and other worldly journeys in early medieval China / Robert Ford Campany -- Sir Henry Vane : mystical piety in the Puritan revolution / W. Clark Gilpin -- Death, and near-death today / Carol Zaleski
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