Death, Dying, and Mysticism : The Ecstasy of the End (Hardcover)

Introduction: Ars Moriendi after Kant's Turn to the Subject; Thomas Cattoi 1. Lady Jacopa and Francis: Mysticism and The Management of Francis of Assisi's Deathbed Story; Darleen Pryds 2. Mystical Dying in Contemporary Autobiographies; Lucy Bregman 3. Traces of Resurrection: The Pattern of Simone Weil's Mysticism; Stuart Jesson 4. Thoreau's Religious Response to Death; Robert Michael Ruehl 5. You Create Your Own Reality: The Fallacy of Death in Jane Roberts' Seth Material; Cynthia A. Hogan 6. Symbolic Death of the Subject in the Structure of Jacques Lacan; Jin Sook Kim 7. Anomalous Experiences and the Bereavement Process; Callum E. Cooper, Chris A. Roe, and Graham Mitchell 8. Heaven is for Real and America's Fascination with Near-Death Experiences; Candy Guenther Brown 9. Mystical Knowledge and Near Death Experience; Lee Irwin 10. The Experience of Death as Non-Death; Jordan Paper 11. Death Visions of the Goddess Kali: The Bengali Shakta Corpse Ritual at the Burning Ground; June McDaniel 12. Sam?dhi as True Death in the Yogas?tra; Lloyd W. Pflueger 13. At our end is the beginning: Death as the Liminal Real in the Art of Frida Kahlo; June-Ann Greeley 14. Modern Requiem Compositions and Musical Knowledge of Death and Afterlife; Martin J. Hoondert