Encyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma

2018-10-15

Author: Norman C. McClelland

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 0786456752

Category: Religion

Page: 321

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Featuring over 1,200 topical entries arranged alphabetically, this encyclopedia provides diverse and detailed coverage of the related subjects of reincarnation and karma. Its in-depth examination ranges from ancient beliefs to those of the present, incorporating all relevant world cultures. A series of broad thematic entries cover foundational aspects while over a thousand highly focused entries deal with various societies and organizations which support the concepts of reincarnation and karma; specific religious groups, sects, and associations; key individuals both historic and modern; and related beliefs, concepts, and practices.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Questions to sociobiology

1998

Author: Edward Craig

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 0415187133

Category: Philosophy

Page: 924

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Volume eight of a ten volume set which provides full and detailed coverage of all aspects of philosophy, including information on how philosophy is practiced in different countries, who the most influential philosophers were, and what the basic concepts are.

The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics

2008-05-01

Author: Ed Hindson

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

ISBN: 9780736936354

Category: Religion

Page: 514

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The perfect combination of scholarship and accessible presentation for Christians who desire to know how to better understand and defend their faith. Bestselling authors Ed Hindson and Ergun Caner have brought together a who's who of apologetic experts—including Lee Strobel, Norm Geisler, Josh McDowell, and John Ankerberg—to produce a resource that's both easy to understand and comprehensive in scope. Every entry provides a biblical perspective and mentions the key essentials that believers need to know about a wide variety of apologetic concerns, including... issues concerning God, Christ, and the Bible scientific and historical controversies ethical matters (genetic engineering, homosexuality, ecology, feminism) a Christian response to world religions and cults a Christian response to the major worldviews and philosophies of our day Included with each entry are practical applications for approaching or defending the issue at hand, along with recommendations for additional reading on the subject.

The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience

2002

Author: Michael Shermer

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9781576076538

Category: Body, Mind & Spirit

Page: 903

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Examines supernatural controversies such as crop circles, the Shroud of Turin, and cold fusion, and provides evidence for and against each phenomenon.

Reincarnation in America

2017-07-31

Author: Lee Irwin

Publisher: Lexington Books

ISBN: 9781498554084

Category: Religion

Page: 486

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This book presents a history of reincarnation, from ancient times to the present; it is written for a diverse readership interested in theories of life after death. The survey offers an exciting journey through a maze of fascinating ideas that all contribute to an underlying theory that after death comes rebirth.

Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs

1996

Author: John Ankerberg

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

ISBN: 1565071603

Category: Religion

Page: 692

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This comprehensive, indexed volume includes short, one-page listings of pertinent facts about a particular movement, its founder, how it claims to work, scientific evaluations done, and its potential dangers. Some topics covered are angels, visualization, shamanism, hypnosis, new age medicine and martial arts.

Rebirth and the Stream of Life

2016-01-28

Author: Mikel Burley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN: 9781628922271

Category: Philosophy

Page: 208

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Rebirth and the Stream of Life explores the diversity as well as the ethical and religious significance of rebirth beliefs, focusing especially on Hindu and Buddhist traditions but also discussing indigenous religions and ancient Greek thought. Utilizing resources from religious studies, anthropology and theology, an expanded conception of philosophy of religion is exemplified, which takes seriously lived experience rather than treating religious beliefs in isolation from their place in believers' lives. Drawing upon his expertise in interdisciplinary working and Wittgenstein-influenced approaches, Mikel Burley examines several interrelated phenomena, including purported past-life memories, the relationship between metaphysics and ethics, efforts to 'demythologize' rebirth, and moral critiques of the doctrine of karma. This range of topics, with rebirth as a unifying theme, makes the book of value to anyone interested in philosophy, the study of religions, and what it means to believe that we undergo multiple lives.

The Motif of Reincarnation in Wachowski/Tykwer’s "Cloud Atlas" and its Relation to Karma

2018-03-14

Author: Verena Od

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

ISBN: 9783668661721

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 10

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Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, Dresden Technical University (Institut für Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften), course: Cloud Atlas - Cosmopolitan Novel and Film, language: English, abstract: The movie Cloud Atlas by Wachowski/ Tykwer is a monumental work of the 21st century filmmaking. There are many aspects which are worthy to take a detailed look at it, but one of the most interesting aspects is reincarnation. Reincarnation itself is a huge topic and makes a differentiation necessary. This paper will examine the hypothesis if the characters in Wachowski/ Tykwer’s Cloud Atlas follow the concept of karma in their processes of reincarnation. Karma is an ancient term of the eastern and oriental religions, which is recently also important for modern and western religions and also lifestyles. The paper will try to examine the cosmopolitan film Cloud Atlas and inquire if there is anything like the concept of karma. Moreover it is an interesting aspect to look at, especially for the current science of karma and reincarnation. At first, this essay will take a closer look at the systematization of reincarnation and the concept of karma.. The current science will also be a topic. The second substantial section will contemplate the process of reincarnation in the film and some representative characters in it. Simultaneously it analyse the relation to karma and if the reincarnation in the movie fits the concept of it.

The Curiosity of School

2012-08-07

Author: Zander Sherman

Publisher: Penguin Canada

ISBN: 9780143186496

Category: Education

Page: 304

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It's one thing we all have in common. We've all been to school. But as Zander Sherman shows in this fascinating, often shocking account of institutionalized education, sending your kids off to school was not always normal. In fact, school is a very recent invention. Taking the reader back to 19th-century Prussia, where generals, worried about soldiers' troubling individuality, sought a way to standardize every young man of military age, through to the most controversial debates that swirl around the world about the topic of education today, Sherman tells the often astonishing stories of the men and women-and corporations-that have defined what we have come to think of as both the privilege and the responsibility of being educated. Along the way, we discover that the SAT was invented as an intelligence test designed to allow the state to sterilize "imbeciles," that suicide in the wake of disappointing results in the state university placement exams is the fifth leading cause of death in China, and that commercialized higher education seduces students into debt as cynically as credit card companies do. Provocative, entertaining-and even educational-The Curiosity of School lays bare the forces that shape the institution that shapes all of us.

Rider Haggard and the Imperial Occult

2021-12-06

Author: Simon Magus

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004470248

Category: Religion

Page: 425

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In Rider Haggard and the Imperial Occult, Simon Magus explores the occult world of H. Rider Haggard through an analysis of his literary engagement with ancient Egypt, Romanticism and Theosophy.

The Geologic Model of Religion

2012-07-17

Author: Andrew Clifford

Publisher: Andrew Clifford

ISBN: 9780957311404

Category: Religion

Page: 410

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"Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity" The opening line of the film Troy captures the tragic essence of personal mortality: ones' passing into oblivion and fading from all memory. Since the prehistoric dawn of humanity death has shadowed everyone’s footsteps. Even into the current scientific era religion has long been the only defense. The sole comfort against oblivion offering a promise of new life or even immortality. The Geologic Model of Religion is a sympathetic study of this defense from its ancient beginnings, drawing upon archaeology, anthropology and comparative religion to clearly explain one of the most complex subjects known. From the study a new model emerges which: * Decomposes religion into its distinct worldview and afterlife paradigms * Categorizes evidence of belief systems held by prehistoric hunter-gatherers, culminating in the Temples of Rebirth such as Gobekli Tepe * Concludes that spirituality began in the Fertile Crescent 11,000 years ago, spreading with the Neolithic revolution throughout the world * Shows why judgment in afterlife was the keystone in the emerging edifice of civilization, and how it enabled hierarchies overcoming Dunbar's number which limited village sizes * Overviews the interaction between science and religion and projects the ultimate fate of religion itself There might be 100,000 books written about religion but the Geologic Model of Religion is unlike any other. Drawing upon evidence from anthropology, archaeology and scripture religion is divided into worldviews and afterlife paradigms. This new model evidences several long lost prehistoric religious belief systems and explains the origin of spirituality in settled societies.

Contextualizing Eschatology in African Cultural and Religious Beliefs

2019-10-21

Author: Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351032964

Category: Religion

Page: 116

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Contextualizing Eschatology in African Cultural and Religious Beliefs addresses the African consciousness and nuances of eschatological beliefs as part and parcel of the holistic African Indigenous worldviews within the context of the people's traditional heritage. The concept of eschatology is usually explained from the perspective of "endtimes" in relation to either the human individual or the cosmos. Within these contexts, the primary interests, particularly with regard to human eschatology, have centred on the questions of death, afterlife, immortality, destiny, judgment, reward and punishment, and the final destination or eternal "home" of humans. This book explores the characteristic nature, the modes, the process as well as the dynamics associated with the various features culminating the functional expression of the "reality" of eschatological beliefs demonstrated in varied but fundamentally the same subject matter of practices among different African ethnic groups. It also discusses the influences of other religious traditions, particularly Christianity and Islam, on contemporary African eschatological thoughts and their attendant consequences. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African studies, eschatology, religious studies, and the philosophy of religion.

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