Images of Afterlife Conference 22.-24.10.2014
Suomen Akatemian tutkimusprojekti ’Mieli ja Toinen’ järjestää Turussa
22 -24.10.2014 kansainvälisen kuolemaa ja kuoleman kulttuurisuutta käsittelevän konferenssin.
Plenary luennot ovat avoimia kaikille.
Konferenssiin voi ilmoittautua tämän viikon
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Images of death and afterlife are rich and manifold in various religious contexts, as well as in artistic, media and other symbolic expressions. Representations of afterlife reflect cultural values, fears and hopes. In the contemporary West collective religious representations are challenged and completed by individual conceptions and beliefs, which, in turn, derive from various cultural sources. How has afterlife – the life and existence of souls and minds (or bodies) after death – been imagined in different contexts and how is it imagined today? What are the contexts in which these images are expressed? Where do afterlife conceptions come from and what is their significance in the societies of the living?
The interdisciplinary conference Images of Afterlife aims to discuss the cultural imagery of death and afterlife from various perspectives, such as anthropology, history, linguistics, religious studies, arts studies, social sciences, health care, psychology and psychiatry, in various cultural and historical contexts.