Life after Death? A Preliminary Survey of the Irish Presbyterian Ministry in the Nineteenth Century

1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth D Brown
2018 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
Sylwia Kamińska-Maciąg

Life after death: About the psychology of dreamsin the works of Vladimir OdoyevskyThe way to abetter understanding of what happens to ahuman soul after death, Carl Gustav Jung saw in dreams, in which the death played aspecial role. The characteristic Jungian combi­nation of dreams and death inspired the author of the article to look at the romantic synthesis of the same interpretations in nineteenth-century Russian literature from the perspective of depth psychology. The selection of short, fantastic prose by Odoyevsky for this type of research, more precisely: The  tale  of  a dead  body  belonging  to  no  one  knows  whom — story from the writer’s col­lection Gaudy  tales, Taunting  dead  man — one of the parts of the notorious cycle of the writer — The  Russian  nights and The  living  corpse, proved to be the right move on the path to creative exegesis, primarily due to the genre classification and world system presented in the mentioned writer’s stories. Such reinterpretation allowed the perception of yet another, psychological, side of the conventional motifs in Russian literature. The thanatological motifs are primarily attributed to the function of triggering the horror in areader — the fear of characters from the afterlife. On the example of Odoyevsky’s protagonists dreams, several designates were revealed, indicating not only acertain imagination of life after death but also the need for mental development of the nineteenth-century Russian literature character. Жизнь после смерти. О психологии сновидений в произведениях Владимира ОдоевскогоПуть к лучшему осмыслению идей о том, что происходит с человеческой душой после смерти, основоположник аналитической психологии Карл Густав Юнг видел всновидени­ях, особенно в тех, в которых смерть играла главную роль. Содержащеесяв размышлениях психолога характерное соединение сновидений и смерти вдохновило автора этой статьи исследовать, с точки зрения глубинной психологии, романтический синтез тех же самых качеств в русской литературе XIX века. Малая фантастическая проза Владимира Федо­ровича Одоевского, в частности произведения: Сказка  о  мертвом  теле,  неизвестно  кому  принадлежащем — рассказ, помещенный в сборнике писателя Пестрые  сказки; Насмешка мертвеца — одна из частей известной серии Русские  ночи, а также Живой  мертвец, для такого рода исследований оказались хорошим материалом особенно ввиду их жанровой классификации и особенностей фиктивного мира в упомянутых выше произведениях. Та­кой обзор позволил увидеть другую, психологическую сторону конвенционных мотивов в русской литературе, поскольку танатологическим мотивом приписываются прежде все­го функции, связанные с вызовом страха у читателя. На примере снов героев Одоевского обнаружено несколько референтов, указывающих не только определенное воображение жизни после смерти, но также нa потребность „психического развития” героев в русской литературе XIX века.


2021 ◽  
pp. 172-190
Author(s):  
John Parker

This chapter discusses how death loomed over the nineteenth-century encounter between Christianity and the peoples of the Gold Coast. It highlights the evangelists who sought to overturn established values and ways of life in order to challenge the very idea of mortality itself: by abandoning idolatry and embracing the salvation offered by Christ. If African religious practice was resolutely this-worldly, aimed at maintaining the beneficence of deities and ancestors in order to defer death, Christianity was distinctly otherworldly, seeking to wash away sin so that the repentant might enjoy a blissful life beyond the grave. The chapter explores how the Akan and their neighbours regarded death, and explains the centrality of the doctrine of eschatology to the Christian message. Finally, the chapter assesses the further expansion of the Christian faith into Asante and the acceleration of conversion in the era of colonial rule. New perceptions of life after death, new funerary customs, and new ways of dying were crucial components of this religious transformation.


Author(s):  
Karen Racine

Biographies are a sort of resurrection. They reanimate a life after death to draw collective meaning from individual sacrifice and offer a model of salvation for others to follow. Although still a relatively new genre, the few full-length biographies of Mexico’s independence-era leaders that were written during the 1820s contributed significantly to the process of identifying aspirational national virtues by embodying them in the stories of individual exemplary lives. Biographies of heroes began to appear from the earliest years of Mexico’s national life, as political independence became a settled reality and attention started to turn to the daunting tasks of giving it an institutional form. In the burgeoning nineteenth century, Romantic ideals animated the actions soldiers and statesmen alike: dreams of nationhood and belonging, praise for heroic individuals who embodied the spirit of their age, a taste for tragic adventure and self-sacrifice for a greater cause. These biographies appeared at the beginning, stories of Mexicans whose exemplary lives transcended their deaths and went on to achieve immortality in print form.


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