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What Is it Like to Be Dead?: Studies of `near-death experiences` show that such experiences not only provide a new certainty of post-mortem survival, but often function as a call for fundamental change in the present. Reported aftereffects encompass changes in attitudes, beliefs, and life orientation. It is said that `experiencers` have lost their fear of death, found their purpose in life, or become `more spiritual.` The experience - often declared to be indescribable, inexplicable, or ineffable - is held by many to be the most important of their lives and, moreover, the best proof available for matters `transcendent.` In What Is It Like To Be Dead , Jens Schlieter argues that to understand recent testimonies of near-death experiences, we need to be aware of the history of innumerable reports of earlier near-death experiences that were communicated and handed down in scores of newspapers, journals, and books. Collections of such testimonies have been published for more than 150 years, accompanied by attempts to classify and interpret them. Schlieter analyzes the religious relevance of near-death experiences -for the experiencers themselves, but also for the growing audience attracted by these testimonies. Near-death experiences bear ontological, epistemic, intersubjective, and moral significance, ranging from reassurance that religious experience is still possible to claims that they initiate a new spiritual orientation in life, or offer evidence for the transcultural validity of afterlife beliefs. This study is the first to document and analyze four centuries of near-death testimonies before the codification of the genre in the 1970s, offering the first full account of the modern genealogy of `near-death experiences.`, Englisch, Ebook.

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What Is it Like to Be Dead?: Studies of `near-death experiences` show that such experiences not only provide a new certainty of post-mortem survival, but often function as a call for fundamental change in the present. Reported aftereffects encompass changes in attitudes, beliefs, and life orientation. It is said that `experiencers` have lost their fear of death, found their purpose in life, or become `more spiritual.` The experience - often declared to be indescribable, inexplicable, or ineffable - is held by many to be the most important of their lives and, moreover, the best proof available for matters `transcendent.` In What Is It Like To Be Dead , Jens Schlieter argues that to understand recent testimonies of near-death experiences, we need to be aware of the history of innumerable reports of earlier near-death experiences that were communicated and handed down in scores of newspapers, journals, and books. Collections of such testimonies have been published for more than 150 years, accompanied by attempts to classify and interpret them. Schlieter analyzes the religious relevance of near-death experiences -for the experiencers themselves, but also for the growing audience attracted by these testimonies. Near-death experiences bear ontological, epistemic, intersubjective, and moral significance, ranging from reassurance that religious experience is still possible to claims that they initiate a new spiritual orientation in life, or offer evidence for the transcultural validity of afterlife beliefs. This study is the first to document and analyze four centuries of near-death testimonies before the codification of the genre in the 1970s, offering the first full account of the modern genealogy of `near-death experiences.`, Englisch, Ebook.

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Studies of "near-death experiences" show that such experiences not only provide a new certainty of post-mortem survival, but often function as a call for fundamental change in the present. Reported aftereffects encompass changes in attit.

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What Is It Like To Be Dead? offers the first full account of the modern genealogy of ""near-death experiences"" and outlines the important functions of these experiences in the religious field of Western modernity. Emerging as autobiographical narratives in the legacy of Christian death-bedvisions, near-death experiences were used in Western religious metacultures (Christian, esoteric, and spiritist-occult) as substantial proof for the survival of death and various other claims, for example, the ability of the soul to leave the body in mesmerist or other esoteric practices. The studydemonstrates how certain features of near-death experiences, such as the panoramic life review and autoscopic out of body-experiences, were initially not reported in Christian death-bed narratives. Instead, they emerged in occult and esoteric circles in the 19th and 20th centuries, in experimentswith astral projection, drugs, and ""clairvoyant"" states. It was only in the 1970s that Raymond Moody, to whom we owe the generic term ""near-death experience,"" could declare the different features to be elements of a single phenomenon. Enabling factors include the discussion on ""brain death"" and coma, the 20th-century increase in hospitalized dying, thecrisis of traditional religious institutions in the 1960s and early 70s, and the ""imperative of individual experience."" Jens Schlieter analyzes the religious relevance of these near-death experiences - for the experiencers themselves, but also for the growing audience of such testimonies. Thesefunctions encompass ontological, epistemic, intersubjective, and moral significance, ranging from reassurance that religious experience is still possible to claims that they initiate a new spiritual orientation in life, or offer evidence for the transcultural validity of afterlife beliefs. | What Is it Like to Be Dead? by Jens Schlieter Hardcover | Indigo Chapters.

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What Is It Like To Be Dead? offers the first full account of the modern genealogy of "near-death experiences" and outlines the important functions of these experiences in the religious field of Western modernity. Emerging as autobiographical narratives in the legacy of Christian death-bed visions, near-death experiences were used in Western religious metacultures (Christian, esoteric, and spiritist-occult) as substantial proof for the survival of death and various other claims, for example, the ability of the soul to leave the body in mesmerist or other esoteric practices. The study demonstrates how certain features of near-death experiences, such as the panoramic life review and autoscopic out of body-experiences, were initially not reported in Christian death-bed narratives. Instead, they emerged in occult and esoteric circles in the 19th and 20th centuries, in experiments with astral projection, drugs, and "clairvoyant" states. It was only in the 1970s that Raymond Moody, to whom we owe the generic term "near-death experience," could declare the different features to be elements of a single phenomenon. Enabling factors include the discussion on "brain death" and coma, the 20th-century increase in hospitalized dying, the crisis of traditional religious institutions in the 1960s and early 70s, and the "imperative of individual experience." Jens Schlieter analyzes the religious relevance of these near-death experiences--for the experiencers themselves, but also for the growing audience of such testimonies. These functions encompass ontological, epistemic, intersubjective, and moral significance, ranging from reassurance that religious experience is still possible to claims that they initiate a new spiritual orientation in life, or offer evidence for the transcultural validity of afterlife beliefs. , Hardcover, Label: Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, Product group: Book, Published: 2018-09-03, Studio: Oxford University Press.