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