Near-death experience in indigenous religions / Gregory Shushan.

This book is an 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 contin...

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Main Author: Shushan, Gregory (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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Summary:This book is an 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 304 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190872489
0190872489
9780190872502
0190872500
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