The Mirror of Death
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The Mirror of Death

Hermeneutical Reflections of the Realms in the Afterlife

  1. 285 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Mirror of Death

Hermeneutical Reflections of the Realms in the Afterlife

About this book

How porous is the border between life and death? How do the dead influence the living and in what way? What can Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and the two Limbos tell us of our contemporary world today?
In The Mirror of Death, Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte explores the hermeneutical potential of the regions in the hereafter. After an exciting voyage through the emergence of the afterlife and of the constancy of death's presence in the history of humanity, Vanhoutte shows, through the study of the nature and genealogy of the various realms in the beyond, how an invigoratingly new and critical perspective of a wide variety of contemporary phenomena is unveiled when reading them through the interpretative lens of these regions where the dead dwell. Modern politics, our fellow human beings, the times of our lives, the capitalistic economic system, medicalization, wokism, and living in crisis will never look the same.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface and Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Death and the Realms of the Afterlife
  6. Genealogy of the Geography of the Beyond
  7. Death and Its (Non)Places
  8. Hermeneutical Reflections of the Beyond
  9. Hell
  10. Heaven
  11. Purgatory
  12. Limbo of the Fathers
  13. Limbo of the Children
  14. Extraduction
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. About the Author