... begins the Vedic study. In the Vidhana text, these hymns of creation and beginning are used to represent the highest attainment or the abode of immortality, and afterlife. Thus the interpretive history of heaven can be discerned as one that begins by simply depicting the creation of the world...

...This chapter focuses specifically on the themes of death, immortality, and the afterlife, revealing in Freud's texts, in addition to an Oedipal theory of patricidal fantasies, a set of images involving dead mothers, mothers as instructors in death, and “uncanny” maternal bodies. Freud's analysis...

...During the four centuries of the Han dynasty, Chinese conceptions of death and the afterlife underwent a profound transformation brought about not only by new ideas about the divine, but also by changes in the relationship between the living and their ancestors. The spirits of the dead were...

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...Intimate attachments and dependencies are argued to underwrite the emergence of agency and subjectivity, as inherently distributed and dynamic phenomena. A personal reflection on the death of an Urarina elder leads to a discussion of prevalent ideas surrounding the afterlife, in which the soul...