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Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology

ISSN 3025-275X

3 papers in the library · publishing 2026

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Sleep as the threshold of mortality: Death anxiety, insomnia, and the ritual function of yoga

Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology July 30, 2026 Ni Wayan Jemiwi Jero, Masatoshi Torii, Jimmy Susanto et al.

Background: Insomnia is conventionally framed as a clinical and epidemiological burden, yet emerging psychological literature suggests sleep disruption is entangled with death anxiety and mortality salience, where nighttime wakefulness is when the mind's habitual defenses against death-awareness weaken, surfacing existential distress that manifests physiologically as hyperarousal. In Indonesia,...

From Arjuna’s crisis to self-resilience: Psychological capital in the Bhagavad Gita and Vedanta

Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology July 28, 2026 Relin Denayu Ekawati, Ni Kadek Surpi, Aditya Ansu

Background: Psychological capital, comprising hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and resilience, provides a useful framework for understanding how individuals remain purposeful during crises. However, its performance-oriented formulation insufficiently addresses the ethical, metaphysical, and spiritual foundations of human strength. This study examines Arjuna’s transformation from psychological and...

Life, death, and moral order in Sanghyang Siksa Kandang Karesian: An old Sundanese perspective on eschatological consciousness

Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology July 27, 2026 I. M. D. Saputra, H. Purwanto, Amarjiva Lochan

Background: This article examines Sanghyang Siksa Kandang Karesian (SSSK) as an Old Sundanese ethical text that explores the relationship between life, death, and moral order. Unlike eschatological understandings that emphasize only the doctrine of the afterlife, this article interprets the eschatological consciousness in the manuscript as a moral framework that operates through teachings on...