What Is it Like to Be Dead? —— Near-Death Experiences, Christianity, and the Occult

----- 死了是什么感觉？濒死体验，基督教和神秘主义

ISBN: 9780190888848 出版年：2018 页码：377 Schlieter, Jens Oxford University Press

What is it Like to be Dead? offers the first full account of the modern genealogy of "near-death experiences," focusing on the functions of these experiences in the religious field of Western modernity. Emerging as autobiographical narratives, they were used in Christian, esoteric, and spiritist-occult traditions as substantial proof for the survival of death, or the claim that the soul is able to leave the body. Now widely disseminated, they serve functions ranging from reassurance that religious experience is still possible to evidence for the transcultural validity of afterlife beliefs.