Go and Sin No More: The Afterlife as Moral Teaching in Italian Catholic Educational Theatre by Daniela Cavallaro

“…Catholic religious orders that have education as part of their mission have often used visions of the afterlife in theatre productions as vehicles to transmit a message of conversion, especially to those who, because of age or illiteracy, would not benefit as much from Scripture readings or complex sermons. …”
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Baroque Sherlock: Benjamin’s friendship between «criminal and detective» in its fore- and afterlife by Alice Barale

“…We’ll try to understand the meaning of this statement through the investigation of the detective topic in two moments of its fore and afterlife: its fore life in Benjamin’s meditation on the baroque (why it is so will be apparent shortly) and its after life in Sherlock Holmes’s most recent apparition, in the BBC series Sherlock. …”
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The Death of Painting and Its Afterlife in Morimura Yasumasa’s <i>Portrait (Futago)</i> by Kimiko Matsumura

“…This essay performs a close reading of Morimura’s <i>Portrait (Futago)</i> to establish how the artist’s multi-media approach echoes 1980s declarations about the end of painting while also proposing alternatives for its historical and material afterlife. In many ways, the artist’s performances make the crises brought on by the emerging global economy visual, and as such pointed to a number of slow deaths: of painting, of capitalism, of Japanese tradition. …”
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Baroque Sherlock: Benjamin’s friendship between «criminal and detective» in its fore- and afterlife by Alice Barale

“…We’ll try to understand the meaning of this statement through the investigation of the detective topic in two moments of its fore and afterlife: its fore life in Benjamin’s meditation on the baroque (why it is so will be apparent shortly) and its after life in Sherlock Holmes’s most recent apparition, in the BBC series Sherlock. …”
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Celia Cussen, Black saint of the Americas. The life and afterlife of Martin de Porres by Carmen Bernand

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Family, Death and Afterlife According to Mosaics of the Abgar Royal Period in the Region of Osroene by Barış SALMAN

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Coping with mortality salience: the role of connection thinking and afterlife beliefs in Chinese context by Kun Wang, Zhaoyang Sun, Yubo Hou, Mengchan Yuan

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The afterlife of site-specific sculpture: a self-referential study through practice by Kim, M

“…Here, the notion of afterlife seeks not only to overcome the time constraints inherent in most exhibition practices, but also to expand the contextual understanding of sculpture in relation to the frame of art. …”

The afterlife of the Great Society: Richard Nixon vs. the permanent government, 1969-1974 by Robertson, M

“…This question will be answered through an examination of three domestic programmes that began or dramatically expanded during the Great Society – the Legal Services Program, Volunteers in Service to America, and the Food Stamp Program.</p> <p>The Afterlife of the Great Society argues that true domestic political power in the United States resided in a powerful network of interests that this dissertation terms the Iron Diamond. …”

The relationship between afterlife beliefs and mental wellbeing among Jordanian Muslim youth by Al-Issa, Riyad Salim, Krauss, Steven Eric, Roslan, Samsilah, Abdullah, Haslinda

“…This finding contradicts a central notion in Islamic theology, which states that avoiding afterlife punishment and obtaining afterlife reward is the primary motive for Muslim religiosity. …”
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‘A Thread to the Afterlife’ - Textiles and the Otherworld in Irish Poetry: Yeats, Boland, Heaney and Meehan by Catriona Clutterbuck

“…It proposes that by mediating the theme of afterlife as a space which allows us to imagine multiple alternative lives in the here-and-now, fabric imagery as deployed by Irish poets challenges us to accept both our losses in this world and our on-going potential for life-renewal.…”
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Lazarus Phenomenon or the Return from the Afterlife—What We Know about Auto Resuscitation by Piotr Rzeźniczek, Agnieszka Danuta Gaczkowska, Anna Kluzik, Marcin Cybulski, Alicja Bartkowska-Śniatkowska, Małgorzata Grześkowiak

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Buying an Afterlife: Mapping the Social Impact of Religious Beliefs through Consumer Death Goods by Candi K. Cann

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Identification of the network structure of the Hebrew Bible texts based upon the notion of the otherworld and the afterlife by Igor R. Tantlevskij, Elizaveta Evmenova, Dmitry Gromov

“…The structure of relations between different texts was studied based upon their interpretation of the otherworld and the afterlife. We have identified 43 most relevant texts that contained concepts related to the notion of the otherworld and constructed a graph representing the relations between the considered texts. …”
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Translation as Craft, as Recovery, as the Life and Afterlife of a Text: Sujit Mukherjee on Translation in India by Elena Di Giovanni

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“A Swedish Voltaire” The Life and Afterlife of Ingemar Hedenius, 20th-Century Atheist by Anton Jansson

“…This article engages with Hedenius’s life and works, but has a particular focus on his “afterlife”. The article utilizes theories of cultural memory to examine how Hedenius has been remembered since his death. …”
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The Afterlife of a Lost Art. On the Work and Legacy of Silent Film Pianist Arthur Kleiner by Anna K. Windisch

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The political economy of death in the age of information: a critical approach to the Digital Afterlife Industry by Öhman, C, Floridi, L

“…First, we introduce the concept of the Digital Afterlife Industry (DAI), and define it as an object of study. …”

An afterlife of a scholarly epic: Frazer's Golden Bough and Lewis's argument from myth by Gassman, M

Beliefs about God, the afterlife and morality support the role of supernatural policing in human cooperation by Atkinson, Q, Bourrat, P

“…Here we use cross-cultural survey data from a global sample of 87 countries to show that beliefs about two related sources of supernatural monitoring and punishment - God and the afterlife - independently predict respondents' assessment of the justifiability of a range of moral transgressions. …”