Introduction
T. Ryan Byerly
Part One: Experiencing Death
1 Interacting with the Afterlife: Continuing Bonds with Deceased Loved Ones
Edith Steffen
2 Belief in Afterlife and the Acceptance of Mortality
Andrea Boudin
3 Getting All Emotional about the Fear of Death
Adam Patterson
4 The Evidential Value of Near-Death Experiences: Controlling for Self-Selected Samples
Beth Seacord
Part Two: Surviving Death
5 The True Self and Life after Death in Heaven
Eleonore Stump
6 Pantheism Does Not Preclude the Possibility of Post-Mortem Survival
Andrei Buckareff
7 Personal Identity Over Time and Life after Death
R. T. Mullins
Part Three: Immortality and Mortality
8 Pro-Immortalism and Pro-Mortalism
Yujin Nagasawa
9 Life
Christopher Belshaw
10 Reality and Recurrence: Reflections on Nietzsche and Weil
Stuart Jesson
Part Four: Eternal Life
11 Death, Immortality and Nirvāṇa in Buddhist Traditions
Mikel Burley
12 Embodiment in the New Creation
Max Baker-Hytch
13 Will there be Races in Heaven?
Nathan Placencia
Biography
T. Ryan Byerly is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests include philosophy of religion and virtue theory. His recent books include Putting Others First: The Christian Ideal of Others-Centeredness (2019) and Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven (2017).
