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Dharma of the Dead: Zombies, Mortality and Buddhist Philosophy

Dharma of the Dead: Zombies, Mortality and Buddhist Philosophy

Paperback

Series: Contributions to Zombie Studies

Comparative ReligionBuddhism

ISBN10: 1476672490
ISBN13: 9781476672496
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jun 29 2018
Pages: 243
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

With the increased popularity of zombies in recent years, scholars have considered why the undead have so captured the public imagination. This book argues that the zombie can be viewed as an object of meditation on death, a memento mori that makes the fact of mortality more approachable from what has been described as America's death-denying culture. The existential crisis in zombie apocalyptic fiction brings to the fore the problem of humanity's search for meaning in an increasingly global and secular world. Zombies are analyzed in the context of Buddhist thought, in contrast with social and religious critiques from other works.

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