Tales of Lights and Shadows: Mythology of the Afterlife

by Robert Ellwood and Robert S. Ellwood

Book Overview

Tales of Lights and Shadows offers a fresh approach to the traditional mythology and literature of the afterlife, centering on tensions and polarities in the afterlife concepts: bright vs. dismal, heaven vs. reincarnation, theocentric vs. anthropocentric heaven, etc. Presenting examples from virtually all the world's religious cultures past and present, this fascinating book puts the concepts clearly in the context of the worldview and social issues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441170030
• ISBN13: 9781441170033
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"