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Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam offers a multi-disciplinary study of Muslim thinking about paradise, death, apocalypse, and the hereafter. It focuses on eschatological concepts in the Quran and its exegesis, Sunni and Shi‘i traditions, Islamic theology, philosophy, mysticism, and other scholarly disciplines reflecting Islamicate pluralism and cosmopolitanism. Gathering material from all parts of the Muslim world, ranging from Islamic Spain to Indonesia, and the entirety of Islamic history, this publication in two volumes also integrates research from comparative religion, art history, sociology, anthropology and literary studies. Unparalleled and unprecedented in its scope and comprehensiveness, Roads to Paradise promises to become the definitive reference work on Islamic eschatology for the years to come.

Islamic eschatology. --- Future life --- Islamic eschatology --- Eschatology, Islamic --- Muslim eschatology --- Eschatology --- Islam. --- Qurʼanic teaching. --- Islam --- Koranic teaching --- Qurʼanic teaching --- Afterlife --- Eternal life --- Life, Future --- Life after death --- Eternity --- Immortality --- Near-death experiences --- Qurʾanic teaching --- Islam&delete& --- Religious aspects --- Future life - Islam --- Islamic eschatology - Qurʼanic teaching --- Future life - Islam - Qurʼanic teaching

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In the present work, the first of its kind in the field of Indian philology, Marc Tiefenauer outlines the history of representations of hell in Indian religious traditions. His study is based on primary sources in Sanskrit, Pali, Ardhamagadhi, Chinese, Braj, Persian and Hindi, extending over three millennia. He identifies the main ideological contributions to Brahmanical representations of the afterlife, particularly those stemming from Buddhism, Jainism, devotional currents (Bhakti) and Islam. He shows the utility of eschatological research to hermeneutics, especially in view of improving the understanding of the literatures of ancient India.

Hell --- Hinduism. --- Jainism. --- Buddhism. --- Islam. --- India --- Religion. --- Future life --- Death --- Future life (Islam) --- Bhakti. --- Buddhism --- Jainism --- Bhakti-marga --- God (Hinduism) --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Afterlife --- Eternal life --- Life, Future --- Life after death --- Eschatology --- Eternity --- Immortality --- Near-death experiences --- Religions --- Religious aspects. --- Worship and love --- Philosophy --- Religious aspects

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Osiris, god of the dead, was one of ancient Egypt's most important deities. The earliest secure evidence for belief in him dates back to the fifth dynasty (c.2494-2345BC), but he continued to be worshipped until the fifth century AD. 'Following Osiris' is concerned with ancient Egyptian conceptions of the relationship between Osiris and the deceased, or what might be called the Osirian afterlife, asking what the nature of this relationship was and what the prerequisites were for enjoying its benefits. It does not seek to provide a continuous or comprehensive account of Egyptian ideas on this subject, but rather focuses on five distinct periods in their development, spread over four millennia. The periods in question are ones in which significant changes in Egyptian ideas about Osiris and the dead are known to have occurred or where it has been argued that they did, as Egyptian aspirations for the Osirian afterlife took time to coalesce and reach their fullest form of expression. An important aim of the book is to investigate when and why such changes happened, treating religious belief as a dynamic rather than a static phenomenon and tracing the key stages in the development of these aspirations, from their origin to their demise, while illustrating how they are reflected in the textual and archaeological records. In doing so, it opens up broader issues for exploration and draws meaningful cross-cultural comparisons to ask, for instance, how different societies regard death and the dead, why people convert from one religion to another, and why they abandon belief in a god or gods altogether.

Osiris (Egyptian deity) --- Future life --- Osiris (Divinité égyptienne) --- Vie future --- Egypt --- Egypte --- Religion. --- Religion --- Future life. --- Afterlife --- Eternal life --- Life, Future --- Life after death --- Eschatology --- Eternity --- Immortality --- Near-death experiences --- Religious aspects --- Osiris --- Usiris --- Wsjr --- Asar --- Asari --- Aser --- Ausar --- Ausir --- Wesir --- Usir --- Usire --- Ausare --- أوزيريس --- Ūzīrīs --- Асірыс --- Азірыс --- Asirys --- Azirys --- Озирис --- Узирис --- Oziris --- Usirev --- Οσιρις --- Ούζιρις --- Oyziris --- Αζάρ --- Azar --- Οζιρις --- Ουζάρ --- Oyzar --- Ουεζίρ --- Oyezir --- Ουζαρέ --- Oyzare --- Oziriso --- 오시리스 --- Osirisŭ --- Osiride --- Usiride --- Osiri --- אוסיריס --- Ozīriss --- Ozyris --- Usiri --- Ozirisz --- オシリス --- Oshirisu --- Isir --- Iszir --- Осирис --- Осіріс --- Озіріс --- Osiris (Divinité égyptienne)