Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions

This book is a fascinating and engaging exploration of the interface between near-death experiences, afterlife beliefs, and shamanism in indigenous societies of North America, Africa, and Oceania. Incorporating ideas from anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and cognitive evolutionary science, the book explains the continuum of similarities and differences between these phenomena.

About the author

Gregory Shushan is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He is the author of Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations and has been Research Fellow at Oxford University's Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion and at the Centro Incontri Umani at Ascona, Switzerland.

Summary

This book is a fascinating and engaging exploration of the interface between near-death experiences, afterlife beliefs, and shamanism in indigenous societies of North America, Africa, and Oceania. Incorporating ideas from anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and cognitive evolutionary science, the book explains the continuum of similarities and differences between these phenomena.

Additional text

This is a remarkable survey of near death experiences gathered from reports across the world. Interested readers will be amazed at the data reported by the author in this erudite and intelligent inquiry.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Shushan, Gregory (Honorary Research Fellow Shushan, Shushan Gregory
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9780190872472
• ISBN: 978-0-19-087247-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Religious issues & debates, Social and cultural anthropology, Religious issues and debates