Conferences

22–24 October 2014, University of Turku, Finland
Interdisciplinary conference: Images of Afterlife

Topics for papers may include but are not limited to:

  • Religious and spiritual images of afterlife
  • Images of afterlife in art
  • Mythic topographies of the otherworld
  • Secular conceptions of afterlife
  • Afterlife conceptions as sources of comfort and hope
  • Beliefs about persistence of the mind after death
  • Mind, soul and consciousness
  • “Good” and “bad” death
  • Suicide and afterlife
  • Euthanasia
  • Organ transplantation
  • Death, afterlife and multiculturalism in health care
  • Agency in afterlife
  • Marginalized discourses of afterlife
  • Interaction with the spaces and agents of the afterlife
  • Spirits, souls, ghosts, wraiths, apparitions, revenants
  • Ancestor worship
  • Near-death experiences and deathbed visions
  • Afterlife and emotions
  • Afterlife: popular (pseudo-scientific) discourses vs. legitimized doctrines

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