Death, Dying, and Mysticism: The Ecstasy of the End

Author T. Cattoi - C. Moreman - G. C. Harcourt

Publisher Palgrave MacMillan

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Author

T. Cattoi - C. Moreman - G. C. Harcourt

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Palgrave MacMillan

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Copyright

2015

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9781137472083

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College Freshman - College Senior

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mysticism.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction Ars Moriendi after Kant’s Turn to the Subject.
1: Lady Jacopa and Francis: Mysticism and the Management of Francis of Assisi’s Deathbed Story.
2: Mystical Dying in Contemporary Autobiographies.
3: Traces of Resurrection: The Pattern of Simone Weil’s Mysticism.
4: Thoreau’s Religious Response to Death.
5: You Create Your Own Reality: The Fallacy of Death in the Seth Material Paradigm.
6: Symbolic Death of the Subject in the Structure of Jacques Lacan.
7: Anomalous Experiences and the Bereavement Process.
8: Heaven Is for Real and America’s Fascination with Near-Death Experiences.
9: Mystical Knowledge and Near-Death Experience.
10: The Experience of Death as Non-Death.
11: Death Visions of the Goddess Kali: The Bengali Shakta Corpse Ritual at the Burning Ground.
12: Samādhi as True Death in the Yogasūtra.
13: At Our End Is the Beginning: Death as the Liminal Real in the Art of Frida Kahlo.
14: Modern Requiem Compositions and Musical Knowledge of Death and Afterlife.
Bibliography.
Contributors.
Index.
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