Inventing Afterlives: The Stories We Tell Ourselves about Life After Death

Author/Contributor(s):	Janes, Regina M
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	07/31/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions and contemporary literature and film as well as cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, Inventing Afterlives shows that in asking what happens after we die we define the worlds we inhabit and the values by which we live.