ebooks White World Order; Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations (The United States in the World) by Robert Vitalis in History

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Human beings; the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes; "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death; and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book; Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in ancient Egypt to provide startling new insights into the particular character of the civilization as a whole.Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy; he arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt. Assmann describes in detail nine different images of death: death as the body being torn apart; as social isolation; the notion of the court of the dead; the dead body; the mummy; the soul and ancestral spirit of the dead; death as separation and transition; as homecoming; and as secret. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt also includes a fascinating discussion of rites that reflect beliefs about death through language and ritual.