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Time's Purpled Masquers: Stars and the Afterlife in Renaissance English Literature

Book by Alastair Fowler; Clarendon Press, 1996

Subjects:

Death In Literature, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Figures Of Speech, Future Life In Literature, Heaven In Literature, Immortality In Literature, Renaissance--England, Stars In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...solution to the problem of accommodating the resurrected. It was a discovery revealing the way to a stellar afterlife. The notion of people dying into stars may seem bizarrely naive. But allowance needs to be made for the naturalizing, externalizing...
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Breaking the Circle: Death and the Afterlife in Buddhism

Book by Carl B. Becker; Southern Illinois University Press, 1993

Subjects:

Death--Religious Aspects--Buddhism, Future Life--Buddhism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Models for Survival 104 An Afterlife Conforming to Personal Expectations...Transcendental States 117 Possible Afterlife Scenarios 120 The Afterlife and...Buddhist Ethics of Death and Dying 126 Death, Dying, and Bioethics in Japan 126...
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Death and Afterlife: Perspectives of World Religions

Book by Hiroshi Obayashi; Praeger, 1992

Subjects:

Death--Religious Aspects--Comparative Studies, Future Life--Comparative Studies

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...TIBETAN TANTRIC VIEW OF DEATH AND AFTERLIFE Elisabeth Benard INTRODUCTION...and it will influence ones afterlife and subsequent rebirth. The...learn about the process of dying and prepare for it." 2 In...last person to know that he is dying frequently is the person approaching...
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England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy

Book by Michael Dobson, Nicola J. Watson; Oxford University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Elizabeth--I--Queen Of England--1533-1603--In Art, Elizabeth--I--Queen Of England--1533-1603--In Literature, English Literature--History And Criticism, Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603--Historiography, Literature And History--Great Britain, Monarchy In Literature, Queens In Literature

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...heroine: Pray not for me, Archbishop. Pray for England. I am dying. Tell my people my last thoughts, my last words were for...depiction as a passage from biography into legend, from life into afterlife. This motif, too, has had both its euphoric and its dysphoric...
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The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel

Book by Jeff Nunokawa; Princeton University Press, 1994

Subjects:

Domestic Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Domestic Relations In Literature, English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, Homosexuality In Literature, Marriage In Literature, Property In Literature, Sex In Literature, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...give to the yearning consumptive glance something of the slowly dying mothers look when her one loved son visits her bedside, and...reminding one of a forsaken temple ). The final touch of the dying mother gilds this lily of repression; whatever remains of a...

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The Final Struggle between George Washington and the Grim King: Washington's Attitude toward Death and an Afterlife

Journal article by Peter R. Henriques; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 107, 1999

Subjects:

Death & dying, History, Presidents, Washington, George (1732-99)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Washingtons Attitude toward Death and an Afterlife by Peter R. Henriques THE final year...Washingtons attitude toward death and an afterlife and gives insight into his character...Washingtons attitude toward death and an afterlife are complicated by the fact that he was...
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Spirits of the Hereafter: Death, Funerary Possession, and the Afterlife in Chuuk, Micronesia (1)

Journal article by Katherine Boris Dernbach; Ethnology, Vol. 44, 2005

Subjects:

Death--Religious aspects, Funerals--Religious aspects, Spirits (Supernatural beings)--Religious aspects, Spirits--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Funerary Possession, and the Afterlife in Chuuk, Micronesia (1...between this world and the afterlife. During this liminal period...being, experiences of the afterlife, and interactions with the...emotional aspects of death and dying, that is, on the beliefs...
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Narrative Afterlife and the Treatment of Time in Henryson's "testament of Cresseid"

Journal article by Chelsea Honeyman; Fifteenth Century Studies, Vol. 35, 2010

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...the beginnings of a narrative afterlife. Cresseid also hopes to secure for herself a spiritual afterlife, as noted earlier, by leaving...tradition of Cresseid, the dying persons unfinished declaration...her literal, and literary, afterlife. Cresseids perspective has...
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The Afterlife and the Spectator

Journal article by Jacob Sider Jost; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 51, 2011

Subjects:

Addison, Joseph--Works, Authors--Works, The Spectator (Periodical)--Authorship, Writers--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Afterlife and the Spectator. by Jacob Sider Jost...specifically in that worlds understanding of the afterlife. Addison and Steeles didactic jokes...a trajectory that continues into the afterlife. A well-lived life in the day-to...
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The Novelistic Afterlife of Henry Mayhew

Journal article by Chris Louttit; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 85, 2006

Subjects:

English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Influence, Journalists--Influence, Journalists--Works, Literature, Modern--Criticism and interpretation, Mayhew, Henry--Influence, Mayhew, Henry--Works, Modern literature--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Influence

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Novelistic Afterlife of Henry Mayhew. by Chris Louttit...attends to the neglected novelistic afterlife of what is, according to Gertrude...added to this list. This novelistic afterlife of Henry Mayhew is, moreover, extremely...

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The Great Afterlife Debate Michael Shermer V. Deepak Chopra

Magazine article by Michael Shermer, Deepak Chopra; Skeptic, Vol. 13, 2008

Subjects:

Beds, Brain, Burden of proof, Consciousness, Magnetic fields, Studies, Unexplained phenomena, Universe

Collections: Entire Library

The Great Afterlife Debate Michael Shermer V. Deepak Chopra by Michael...KNOW AND YOU DONT EITHER. This is my position on the afterlife. If we knew for certain that there is an afterlife, we would not fear death as we do, we would not...
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Dying in America

Magazine article by Richard Lichtman; Tikkun, Vol. 16, July 2001

Subjects:

Death & dying, Grief, Parents & parenting

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...wonderful" deaths in which the dying person and his or her intimate...relieved of the fear that our dying need be a fearful experience...accept the possibility of an afterlife, for the issue is concerned...common core to our dread of dying is it not simply in the extinction...
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Bush's Martyrs: Michael Lind Reveals Who Is Really Fighting in Iraq: Southerners Who, Unlike the Secularised Puritans of the American North-East and the Pacific Coast, Believe in Dying for Their Country

Magazine article by Michael Lind; New Statesman, Vol. 133, March 1, 2004

Subjects:

Armed Forces--Analysis, Armed Forces--Political aspects, Armed Forces--Social aspects, Armed forces--Analysis, Armed forces--Political aspects, Armed forces--Social aspects, Soldiers--Analysis, Soldiers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Soldiers--Social aspects, United States--Military aspects

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...East and the Pacific Coast, Believe in Dying for Their Country. by Michael Lind...believe there is no greater honour than dying for ones country--and their high levels...religiosity afford the comfort of belief in an afterlife as well. amp;#91;ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...
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A New Kind of Dying

Magazine article by Laura M. Ansnerus; Family Therapy Networker, Vol. 20, January 1996

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...have a small audience. When dying, he advised, "do not be alone...passing the time at his house. "Dying," he said, "is a team sport...learn from my experience with dying." Mr. Leary is not stopping...Mr. Leary approaches the afterlife rather literally. He wrote...
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Soul Scales

Magazine article by Benjamin Radford; Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 31, January 2007

Subjects:

Afterlife--Analysis, Future life--Analysis, Pseudoscience--Analysis, Soul--Measurement

Collections: Entire Library

...medical measurement methods were even cruder. (Readers interested in the process of dying should seek out Alan Kings brilliant and moving 2003 documentary Dying at Grace.) With tighter protocols and better diagnostic tools, if the soul does indeed...

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With His Dying Breath, This Man Vowed to Prove the Existence of the Afterlife from beyond the Grave. Bunkum? A Top Academic Believes He Succeeded.And That This Very Article Is Part of the Proof

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 22, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

With His Dying Breath, This Man Vowed to Prove the Existence of the Afterlife from beyond the Grave. Bunkum...about the existence of the afterlife before, only to be revealed...prove the existence of the afterlife, it would be Montague...
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CULTURE: Smoking Performance Keeps Keanu in the Frame; Alison Jones Discusses the Afterlife with Keanu Reeves

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 17, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Alison Jones Discusses the Afterlife with Keanu Reeves. Byline...circumstances, he says. Hes dying and he gives the finger to...secure his spot in the celestial afterlife suddenly becomes more urgent...but not an ability to see the afterlife. I dont want to see the future...
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Revealed: The Startling Truth about Near-Death Experiences; Tunnels of Light. Meetings with Dead Loved Ones. Are Those Extraordinary Stories Proof of the Afterlife - or Hokum? A Top Brain Specialist Has a Compelling New Theory ..

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 9, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Those Extraordinary Stories Proof of the Afterlife - or Hokum? A Top Brain Specialist Has...believe they have had a glimpse of the afterlife, an experience that shores up their...on thoughts of souls departing for the afterlife before returning to Earth. Kevin Nelson...
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Revealed: The Startling Truth about Near-Death Experiences; Tunnels of Light. Meetings with Dead Loved Ones. Are Those Extraordinary Stories Proof of the Afterlife - or Hokum? A Top Brain Specialist Has a Compelling New Theory ..

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 12, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Those Extraordinary Stories Proof of the Afterlife - or Hokum? A Top Brain Specialist Has...believe they have had a glimpse of the afterlife, an experience that shores up their...on thoughts of souls departing for the afterlife before returning to Earth. Kevin nelson...
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HEAVENS ABOVE, CLINT! with a Script by Peter Morgan and a Star Turn from Matt Damon, Eastwood's Latest Has Pedigree -- but Its Vision of the Afterlife Is Daft

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 28, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Has Pedigree -- but Its Vision of the Afterlife Is Daft. Byline: David Sexton FILM...each with an obsessive interest in the afterlife, who eventually connect with one another...atheist, wanted the existence of the afterlife left ambiguous. But Clint has actually...

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Updike, John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Women and Other Stories (1972), Problems (1979), The Afterlife and Other Stories (1994), My Fathers Tears and Other Stories...Bech at Bay (1998). Updike also wrote the play Buchanan Dying (1974) and a variety of nonfiction literary criticism, e...

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