Carol Zaleski
Biographic Data
| ID | 295605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Zaleski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaleski |
| SIGNATURE | ZALESKI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0243-6601 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How to believe in immortality
All the cards seem to be stacked against belief in immortality. Nonetheless, the resources of particular religious traditions may avail where generic philosophical solutions fall short. With attention to the boredom and narcissism critiques, intimations of deathlessness in Śāntideva's radical altruism, and recent Christian debates on the soul and the intermediate state, I propose two criteria for a coherent religion-specific belief in immortality…
Fala a mulher da rua
Este artigo é parte de uma investigação em processo que investe em pensar as narrativas e práticas relacionadas ao signo pombagira. O problema aqui proposto se situa nas dimensões do feminino, suas relações a múltiplas formas de produção de desvio/inscrição do signo. Elegemos uma identidade política subalternizada que enuncia desde as periferias do mundo para ressaltar as múltiplas faces do feminino e suas batalhas cotidianas ou, como preferimos …
The Epistemology of Religious Experience . Keith E. Yandell
Attention as a Key to Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
The cultivation of attention, especially in the form of mindful engagement in the present moment, is recognized by many diverse schools of Buddhist practice to be the prerequisite for insight and the therapy for all forms of suffering engendered by false views. Legend has it that when Rinzai Zen poet-priest Ikkya was asked to write down the sum of his wisdom, he wrote Attention, attention, attention. What do you mean? he was asked. Attention mean…
Fruitful Journeys
The Old Enemy
Otherworld Journeys
Otherworld Journeys
This book represents the first objective, comprehensive survey of the evidence for life after death provided by 'near-death' experiences. Carol Zalewski demonstrates that the eyewitness account of life after death is a common motif in the folklore and religious literature of the world, and shows that medieval Christian visionary narratives in particular offer surprisingly close parallels to the modern stories. In her discussion of the similaritie…
St. Patrick's Purgatory
In Lough Derg, lake in the Irish county of Donegal, there is an island, sacred to both pre-Christian and Christian Celts, which achieved fame in the Middle Ages as goal for pilgrims and an entrance to purgatory. Here, according to tradition, St. found way to convert the pagan Irish through graphic demonstration of the pains of the damned and the joys of the blessed. Thousands of pilgrims travelled to the of St. Patrick where, locked inside its ca…
St. Patrick's Purgatory
In Lough Derg, lake in the Irish county of Donegal, there is an island, sacred to both pre-Christian and Christian Celts, which achieved fame in the Middle Ages as goal for pilgrims and an entrance to purgatory. Here, according to tradition, St. found way to convert the pagan Irish through graphic demonstration of the pains of the damned and the joys of the blessed. Thousands of pilgrims travelled to the of St. Patrick where, locked inside its ca…
St. Patrick's Purgatory
In Lough Derg, lake in the Irish county of Donegal, there is an island, sacred to both pre-Christian and Christian Celts, which achieved fame in the Middle Ages as goal for pilgrims and an entrance to purgatory. Here, according to tradition, St. found way to convert the pagan Irish through graphic demonstration of the pains of the damned and the joys of the blessed. Thousands of pilgrims travelled to the of St. Patrick where, locked inside its ca…
Otherworld Journeys
This book represents the first objective, comprehensive survey of the evidence for life after death provided by 'near-death' experiences. Carol Zalewski demonstrates that the eyewitness account of life after death is a common motif in the folklore and religious literature of the world, and shows that medieval Christian visionary narratives in particular offer surprisingly close parallels to the modern stories. In her discussion of the similaritie…
Otherworld Journeys
The Old Enemy
Fruitful Journeys
Attention as a Key to Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
The cultivation of attention, especially in the form of mindful engagement in the present moment, is recognized by many diverse schools of Buddhist practice to be the prerequisite for insight and the therapy for all forms of suffering engendered by false views. Legend has it that when Rinzai Zen poet-priest Ikkya was asked to write down the sum of his wisdom, he wrote Attention, attention, attention. What do you mean? he was asked. Attention mean…
The Epistemology of Religious Experience . Keith E. Yandell
Fala a mulher da rua
Este artigo é parte de uma investigação em processo que investe em pensar as narrativas e práticas relacionadas ao signo pombagira. O problema aqui proposto se situa nas dimensões do feminino, suas relações a múltiplas formas de produção de desvio/inscrição do signo. Elegemos uma identidade política subalternizada que enuncia desde as periferias do mundo para ressaltar as múltiplas faces do feminino e suas batalhas cotidianas ou, como preferimos …
How to believe in immortality
All the cards seem to be stacked against belief in immortality. Nonetheless, the resources of particular religious traditions may avail where generic philosophical solutions fall short. With attention to the boredom and narcissism critiques, intimations of deathlessness in Śāntideva's radical altruism, and recent Christian debates on the soul and the intermediate state, I propose two criteria for a coherent religion-specific belief in immortality…
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