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93. Wolfe, Taking Back Islam; Sachedina, Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism; Abou El Fadl, The Place of Tolerance in Islam.
Afterword: Immortal Longing
1. See, for example, McDannell and Lang, Heaven; Zaleski, Otherworld Journeys; Near-Death Experience and Christian Hope; Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body; Aries, The Hour of Our Death; Zaleski and Zaleski, The Book of Heaven.
2. See for example the very full studies of Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body; and Zaleski, Otherworld Journeys.
3. See Gillman, The Death of Death.
4. L. Clark, in her study of teenage religion and the media, From Angels to Aliens, pp. 196-98, points out that many teenagers state that they “make up” their own religion. Clark shows that these created religions are mostly composed of bits and pieces of television shows and films. This public feature of the “creative religion” is important for its credibility.
5. Otto, The Idea of the Holy.
6. In his conclusion to In Gods We Trust, Atran asks whether religion is inherently either evolutionarily adaptive or maladaptive and decides that it is not essentially either one.
7. Tillich, The Courage To Be; Systematic Theology; The Dynamics of Faith.
8. See, for example, the helpful book of Diamond, Contemporary Philosophy and Religious Thought.
9. See, for example, Alvarado, “Out-of-Body Experiences.”
10. Zaleski, Otherworld Journeys, pp. 184-205.
11. Ibid., p. 205.
12. Balkin, Cultural Software, pp. 13-14.
13. Ibid.
14. Dawkins, “Viruses of the Mind.”
15. Balkin, Cultural Software, p. 13.
16. See Atran, “The Trouble With Memes,” in In Gods We Trust, pp. 236-62, for a cogent argument analysis of the limitations of evolutionary models.
17. Gottsch, “Mutation, Selection, and Vertical Transmission.”
18. See Blackmore, The Meme Machine.
19. For a review of this important concept see Neimeyer and Van Brunt, “Death Anxiety;” Neimeyer, Death Anxiety Handbook.
20. Green, Little Saint; see New York Times Book Review August 13, 2000, p. 4.
21. See Saler, Conceptualizing Religion, esp. pp. 50-69.
22. Greyson, “Reduced Death Threat.” Greyson reports that people who have had a Near Death Experience have significantly less death anxiety than people who have had a brush with death and no NDE or people without any significant brush with death.
23. Hick, Death and Eternal Life.
24. See Walls, Heaven, pp. 75-79.
25. In a way it is the converse of Shakespeare’s effective use of the notion of ghosts, abandoned in his own day, to serve the needs of his drama. For a more complete discussion of Shakespeare’s notion of life after death, see Greenblatt, Hamlet in Purgatory, esp. pp. 151-204.
26. Bloom, Hamlet, p. 133.
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