AFTERLIFE: A HISTORY OF LIFE AFTER DEATH

Book ID/图书代码： 06545016B90901

English Summary/英文概要： For in that sleep of death what dreams may come? The end of life has never meant the extinction of hope. People perpetually have yearned for, and often been terrified by, continuance beyond the horizon of mortality. Ranging across time and space, Philip Almond here takes his readers on a remarkable journey to worlds both of torment and delight. He travels to the banks of the Styx, where Charon the grizzled boatman ferries a departing spirit across the river only if a gold obol is first placed for payment on the tongue of its corpse. He transports us to the legendary Isles of the Blessed, walks the hallowed ground of the Elysian Fields and plumbs the murky depths of Tartarus, primordial dungeon of the Titans. The pitiable souls of the damned are seen to clog the soot-filled caverns of Lucifer even as the elect ascend to Paradise. Including medieval fears for the fate of those consumed by cannibals, early modern ideas about the Last Day and modern scientific explorations of the domains of the dead, this first full treatment of the afterlife in Western thought evokes many rich imaginings of Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and Limbo.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在死亡睡眠中，梦会是什么样的？生命的终结从未意味着希望的熄灭。人们永远向往跨越死亡的地平线，同时也常常恐惧它。跨越时间和空间，菲利普•阿蒙德在本书中带着读者踏上既痛苦又喜悦的关于世界级的非凡旅程。他来到冥河岸，那里冥府渡神运送灵魂过河，只有尸体的舌头放了古希腊金银币才会优先过去。他带我们来到传说中的祝福群岛，走向极乐世界的圣地，探究地狱的黑暗深渊，泰坦的原始地牢。被罪大恶极的可怜灵魂被视为堵塞撒旦烟尘弥漫的洞穴，即使他们被挑选前往天堂。包括中世纪对被食人族吃掉的命运的担忧，关于末日的早期现代思想，对死亡域的现代科学探索，这本西方思想中关于来世的第一次全面阐述唤起了许多对天堂、地狱、炼狱和丛林地狱的丰富想象。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：“就像他以前所有的书一样真实，菲利普•阿蒙德的《来世》是深思、有洞察力、探究、准确、广泛、清晰、动人的书写。这是他的早期传记《魔鬼》的优秀后续。”——杰夫瑞•伯顿•罗素，圣塔巴巴拉加利福尼亚大学的退休历史学教授，《迷失的天堂和仙境历史》的作者

菲利普关于来世的文化历史是迷人的——也是经常令人不安的——是一段通往西方想象的旅程：它的梦想，愿望，恐惧和希望。博学、清晰，范围从柏拉图到布拉瓦茨基夫人，从但丁描绘的地狱，炼狱和天堂到哈尔的世界末日的场景，这本书吸引我们进入末世论和最后事情的令人振奋的场景，并因其持久的关联性而挑战任何世俗的意识形态。专注死亡和有限性，人类渴望并尝试描述死后的情景：一种抹不去的常年职业。这就是我们。在这本为我们提供了一张自我理解的路线图。”——格雷厄姆•沃德，牛津大学神学的钦定讲座教授

菲利普•阿蒙德的新书是一个受欢迎和可读的关于人生信仰的提醒，即死后不是简单的设定，还有一系列的希望和观念，包括复杂的和简单的，迷人的关于什么是人类生活的本质的有着不同方式的不同模式。”——罗恩•威廉姆斯，剑桥抹大拉马利亚学院的硕士，前坎特伯雷大主教

’As is true of all his previous books, Philip Almond’s Afterlife is thoughtful, perceptive, inquiring, accurate, wide-ranging, clear and engagingly written. It is a fine follow-up to his earlier biography of the Devil.’ --Jeffrey Burton Russell, Emeritus Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of A History of Heaven and Paradise Mislaid

’Philip Almond’s cultural history of the afterlife is a fascinating - and frequently disturbing - journey through the Western imagination: its dreams, desires, fears and hopes. Erudite, lucid, ranging the while from Plato to Madame Blavatsky and from Dante’s portrayals of Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise to Hal Lindsey’s apocalyptic scenarios, the book draws us into an exhilarating current of eschatologies and final things that challenge any secular ideology because of their abiding relevance. Staring at death and finitude, humankind aspires to and tries to picture post-mortem conditions: a perennial occupation that cannot be erased. It is who we are. In his engaging book Almond offers us a roadmap to self-understanding.’ --Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford

’Philip Almond’s new book is a welcome and readable reminder that belief in life after death is not one simple set of convictions but a range of hopes and conceptions, including both the sophisticated and the simple, engaging in diverse ways with diverse models of what human life essentially is.’ --Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and former Archbishop of Canterbury

About the Author/作者介绍： 菲利普•C•阿蒙德是昆士兰大学宗教系的名誉教授。他以前的著作包括《沃博伊斯女巫：一个关于巫术施虐与撒旦占有的离奇故事》（2008），《英国第一个神鬼学家：雷金•纳德和巫术的发现》（2011，平装2014），《兰开夏女巫：魔法编年史和在潘德尔山的死亡》（2012），《魔鬼：一个新的传记》（2014），这些书都由I.B.Tauris出版社出版。

Philip C Almond is Emeritus Professor of Religion in the University of Queensland. His previous books include The Witches of Warboys: An Extraordinary Story of Sorcery, Sadism and Satanic Possession (2008), England’s First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and ’The Discoverie of Witchcraft’ (2011, paperback 2014), The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill (2012), and The Devil: A New Biography (2014), all published by I.B.Tauris.

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