Family matters: the interpretation of Lycian "Funerary Banquet" reliefs by Lockwood, S

“…Whether the family is depicted during life or in the afterlife cannot be discerned based on the available evidence, but the setting does not change the meaning of the reliefs.…”

The revolution's echoes : music and political culture in Conakry, Guinea by Dave, N

“…I use the particular circumstances of the post-coup moment in 2009 as a lens through which to understand the ongoing legacy of authoritarianism on Conakry’s musical and political landscape. I consider the afterlife of musical nationalism as musicians from the Revolution seek to find a place in the post-nationalist state; anxieties about praise-singing and music professionalization that have sharpened since the Revolution’s end; and the politics of youth music as young people negotiate between ideals of protest and the quiet accommodation of power. …”

The composer and musical identities in nineteenth-century fiction by Roskams, V

“…After introducing a radical new Romantic mode of conceptualising music at the beginning of the century, the thesis uses fiction to trace this mode’s afterlife: how it was reshaped by new ideas about music and its relationship to identity, but also its persistence long after the end of the Romantic period in other arts. …”

Death in the eighteenth-century novel, 1740-1800 by Moore, P, Moore, Paul H.

“…The last two chapters deal with the closing decades of the century, when hopes and fears roused by revolutionary ferment led to fresh uncertainties concerning death and the afterlife. In Ann Radcliffe's sentimental-Gothic novels, religious uncertainty is exploited as a source of sublime terror, while the English Jacobins, Godwin, Holcroft and Bage, attempt to modify the conventions of death in the novel in order to communicate a wholly secular philosophy in which Clarissa's hope of heaven is replaced by the hope of man's perfectibility on earth.…”

The banquet in Etruscan funerary art and its underlying meaning by Mitterlechner, T

“…In the late fifth century BC, another shift of meaning occurs, as some of the banquets in Etruscan tomb-painting clearly take place in the afterlife: dark clouds surround the deceased who eat and drink together with their ancestors. …”

Underworld justice in Imperial China and its continuing influence in Hong Kong by Kwok, D

“…Certain elements of the Chinese imperial legal system, including judges and trials, and laws and codes, were borrowed by the Daoists and applied to their construct of the afterlife. Underworld justice beliefs and practices flourished throughout China‘s imperial past, and are still influential to some devotees in today‘s Hong Kong. …”

Education from the eyes of our children: qualitative exploration on implementation of quranic component in the Ulul Albab curriculum by Hameran, Naremah, Muhamad, Mohd Mokhtar, Abdul Manaf, Umi Kalthom, Nor Azman, Ady Hameme

“…The analyzed data led to the conclusion of three sub-themes explaining the crux theme; Guidance for the afterlife/hereafter.…”
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Petrarch's French fortunes: negotiating the relationship between poet, place, and identity in the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries by Jennifer Rushworth

“…This article reconsiders Petrarch’s French afterlife by juxtaposing a time of long-recognised Petrarchism — the sixteenth century — with a less familiar and more modern Petrarchist age, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. …”
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Resolving the interfaith conflict over burial preparation: Who has the right to bury the dead? by Ansori Ansori, Karimatul Khasanah, Mohamad Sobirin

“…Using the theological and legal approaches, we found that the conflict was caused by (1) belief in an afterlife and (2) law, culture and religion give the right to decide the burial or disposal of the body to living parties. …”
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Positive effects of Religious and Spiritual Coping on Bereavement by Laura Yoffe

“…By using faith, prayers, meditations, religious rituals and beliefs about life, death and afterlife, religious persons try to cope with their grief and enhance positive feelings of emotional ,mental and spiritual well-being. …”
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Rating the Persuasiveness of Empirical Evidence for the Survival of Consciousness After Bodily Death: A cross-sectional study by Helane Wahbeh, Arnaud Delorme, Dean Radin

“…Throughout history and across all cultures, many people have believed in some form of afterlife. Recent surveys show that most people worldwide believe they will survive after bodily death. …”
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Perceptions and practices of spiritual care among hospice physicians and nurses in a Taiwanese tertiary hospital: a qualitative study by Zoe Tao, Poshu Wu, Amber Luo, Tzu-Lin Ho, Ching-Yu Chen, Shao-Yi Cheng

“…Themes in defining spiritual care, spiritual distress, and spiritual care challenges included understanding patient values and beliefs, fear of the afterlife and repercussions of poor family relationships, difficulties in communication, the patient’s medical state, and a perceived lack of preparedness and time to deliver spiritual care. …”
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Permaculture Design: On the Practice of Radical Imagination by Katja Rothe

“…However I would like to propose that the afterlife of systems theory as expressed in the concept of permaculture, first developed by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, should not only be sought in theoretical and analytical discourse. …”
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The <i>Dhāraṇī</i> Coffin from the Nongso Tomb and the Cult of Shattering Hell during the Koryŏ Dynasty by Seunghye Lee

“…Inscriptions of Buddhist mantras and <i>dhāraṇīs</i> were interred in Chinese tombs on behalf of the deceased from the Tang dynasty onward as the fear of postmortem judgment and punishment in the ten courts of hell became firmly rooted. This notion of the afterlife and the practice of enclosing <i>dhāraṇī</i> inscriptions in tombs seem to have been received by Korean Buddhists by the beginning of the Koryŏ (918–1392). …”
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The Economics of Immortality: The Demi-Immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political Economy in Dracula by J. Jeffrey Franklin

“…Third, I will argue that in the character of the demi-immortal Oriental vitalism came to signify a type of eternal life in competition with the traditional Judeo-Christian afterlife, which rendered it necessarily damnable. …”
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A Narrative about a “Resurrected Woman” in the Reception of D.V. Batov, an Old Believer of Tula by Alexander V. Pigin

“…Batov’s arguments against this text: the main one is dis- crepancy between the narrative and the Orthodox doctrine of the soul’s afterlife ordeals as represented in the Byzantine Life of Vassily Novy (10 th century). …”
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Anthropological-eshatological paradigm of christian apologists. Part IІ by priest Alexander Khoroshko

“…The article traces the specifics of the formation of the Holy Father‘s doctrine of man, the purpose of his life on earth and the afterlife based on the works of early Christian apologists I-III centuries. …”
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Surviving the Impossibility of Black Motherhood: Trauma and Healing in Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose by Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka

“…In this process of wake work (Sharpe 16-19), the protagonist and her community create a new Black discourse of self-representation in defiance of the dominant, white supremacist discourse in order to construct, in Christina Sharpe’s words, “new ways to live in the wake of slavery, in slavery’s afterlives, to survive (and more) the afterlife of property” (18).…”
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Dimensionality and factorial invariance of religiosity among Christians and the religiously unaffiliated: A cross-cultural analysis based on the International Social Survey Program... by Carlos Miguel Lemos, Ross Joseph Gore, Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, F LeRon Shults

“…For the model with the best fit and measurement invariance properties, we labeled the three resulting factors as "Beliefs in afterlife and miracles", "Belief and importance of God" and "Religious involvement." …”
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Explaining Role of Religious Education in the Face of New Millennium’s Crises: Peace as a Method of Education in the Qur'an and New Testament by Khadijeh aAsil, Alireza Saberian, Jafar Taban

“…The present study also stems from the belief that the Abrahamic religions seek afterlife salvation and worldly peace for all humanity. …”
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