Afterlife: A History of Life After Death

by Philip C Almond and Philip C. Almond

The end of life has never meant the extinction of hope. People have always yearned for, and often been terrified by, continuance beyond the horizon of mortality. Over many centuries various imaginative and sometimes macabre ideas have been devised to explain what happens to human beings after death. As Philip C. Almond reveals in his new and zestful history of the hereafter, whichever image or metaphor has been employed by visionaries, writers,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501704893
• ISBN13: 9781501704895
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher