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1. Response: Chandler's 'vehicular hypothesis' at work.

Author

Janowitz, Anne

Subjects
*PAPER, *SPIRIT, *SOUL, *DEATH, EDITORIALS
Abstract

The author reflects on the paper of Chandler. She remarks to find the paper difficult but fascinating particularly Chandler's argument that Sterne draws on an-ongoing tradition of argue on the fate of the soul after death, the "vehicular hypothesis." She added that the general theory of vehicularity was part of the eighteenth-century study of pneumatology or pneumatics (spiritual being), and was raised to offer philosophic arguments for the continued existence of the soul after death.

Published
2008
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2. UP IN SMOKE.

Author

Deutsch, Lauren W.

Subjects
FUNERALS, DEATH, RELIGION, PAPER, SOUL, MONEY -- Religious aspects
Abstract

The article discusses the Chinese practice of sending money and goods to the deceased through loved one's offering of smoke. It states that in order to avoid discontentment of the soul, Chinese funerals involves a practice wherein money and material goods rendered in paper are sent off through smoke at a local temple. Moreover, money papers or joss papers are also used in funerals, which are being closed into three-dimensional shapes by lamenters depending on the family traditions.

Published
2010