The Baha'i Studies Listserv *The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation.<http://bit.ly/D2z5O> * Edited by Bruce Greyson, Janice Holden, and Debbie James.
http://bit.ly/D2z5O >From the back cover: “This volume is meant to be, as its title implies, *a handbook* for all those people – scholars, educators, researchers, health-care workers, members of the clergy, the public at large, and, yes, of course, near-death experiencers themselves – with a serious interest in near-death experiences. In short, this book is designed for anyone to use who wishes to know in depth and in searching detail what investigators have learned from 30 years of research into near-death experiences. As such, it is the only book of its kind that draws on the expertise of the world’s foremost scholars and researchers who collectively present the most up-to-date and informed summary of the field. Each contributor is an authority on his or her own area of specialization, and each, therefore, has something distinctive to offer the reader who will come to see through these separate lenses a vision of the whole…” The book includes a chapter by Farnaz Masumian, a Bahá’í who teaches world religions at the University of Texas at Austin. The chapter is titled “World Religions and Near-Death Experiences”. Regarding this chapter, Ken Vincent, the author of *Visions of God From the Near-Death Experience*, says the following: *“Chapter 8 on world religions and the NDE is a treasure with its author, Farnaz Masumian, comparing the NDE with seven of the world's religions [including the Bahá’í Faith]. Masumian quotes chapter and verse from the Holy Books of these religions to show their similarity and, occasionally, minor differences regarding afterlife and the NDE.”* -- "Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." -- Bahá'u'lláh __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-452956-274...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai...@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
