The death of an individual represents a moment of tragic and unexplainable loss for the members of a community that reveals the need and consequent desire to create beliefs about the existence of an afterlife. For numerous scholars this aspect of human life represents the beginning of a long- term evolutionary process that generated the development of forms of religiosity, dating back to the earliest members of the human species.
Titolo: | Funerary Customs and Religious Practices in the Ancient Near East |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2018 |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11769/372574 |
ISBN: | 978-1-4419-0426-3 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio) |
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