Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion December 1, 1987 Lee A. Kirkpatrick, Carol Zaleski 318 citations
This book represents the first objective, comprehensive survey of the evidence for life after death provided by 'near-death' experiences. Carol Zalewski demonstrates that the eyewitness account of life after death is a common motif in the folklore and religious literature of the world, and shows that medieval Christian visionary narratives in particular offer surprisingly close parallels to the...