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Podcast: New Books in Anthropology
Episode: Gregory Shushan, "The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife" (White Crow Books, 2022)
Description: In The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife (White Crow Books, 2022), historian of religions Gregory Shushan explores the relationships between extraordinary experiences and beliefs in life after death. He first shows how throughout history and around the world, near-death experiences have influenced ideas about the afterlife. Shushan also takes a deep dive into the problem of similarities and differences between NDE accounts. Not only do they vary widely, but so does a culture’s way of responding to them and integrating them into their belief systems.In this book, Shushan also compares NDEs with accounts of sham...