Recommended Books

Reincarnation (Anthropology & Cultural Studies)

[ezcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=”width:20%”] [/ezcol_1half] Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit, edited by Antonia Mills and Richard Slobodin, is a collection of ethnographic papers. Several authors deal exclusively with beliefs, but some, like Mills, report phenomena as well. A paper on the Tlingit by Ian Stevenson is reprinted in the volume.[ezcol_1half_end id=”” class=”” style=””][/ezcol_1half_end]

[ezcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=”width:20%”][/ezcol_1half]In Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians: Soul Journey, Metamorphosis, and Near Death Experience, Warren Jefferon has assembled an array of ethnographic accounts of beliefs and experiences related to survival of death and reincarnation among Native Americans. [ezcol_1half_end id=”” class=”” style=””][/ezcol_1half_end]

[ezcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=”width:20%”][/ezcol_1half]In Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth, well-known anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere makes a comparative study of classical Greek, Buddhist and North American Indian reincarnation beliefs, focusing on the way the concept of karma is or is not reflected in them. [ezcol_1half_end id=”” class=”” style=””][/ezcol_1half_end]

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