Belief in the life to come

Motif

Belief in the life to come.

Religion. · Religious beliefs. · Particular dogmas. · view the constellation · filed as V311

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter XIII
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section CLIII
Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter XII

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish myth*Cross.
general *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 272b

Within the index

Filed under Particular dogmas.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Doctrine of immortality taught by druids Man converted to belief in future life on deathbed. Feels sure nevertheless that nothing will come of it Dying man refuses to believe in life to come Given choice between life and heaven, person chooses latter

Filed beside it

Belief in Immaculate Conception. (Cf. T510.)Last judgment Belief in the Atonement Efficacy of prayer The chosen people

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