Immortality
Here are entered works on the concept of the survival of the soul after death. For works on the concept of living indefinitely in the flesh see Immortalism.
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Broader term:Related terms:Narrower terms:- Immortality -- Bibliography
- Immortality -- Christianity
- Immortality -- Early works to 1800
- Immortality -- Fiction
- Immortality -- Theosophy
- Annihilationism
- Conditional immortality
- Immortality in literature
- Tree of life
- Life after death
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The Illusion of Immortality (third edition; New York: Philosophical Library, c1959), by Corliss Lamont, contrib. by John Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)- The Belief in God and Immortality: A Psychological, Anthropoligical and Statistical Study (Boston: Sherman, French and Co., 1916), by James H. Leuba (multiple formats at Google)
- The Belief in God and Immortality: A Psychological, Anthropoligical and Statistical Study (Chicago and London: Open Court, 1921), by James H. Leuba (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin (9th edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1886), by John Fiske
- The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin (20th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893), by John Fiske (Gutenberg text)
- Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine, by William James (HTML at religion-online.org)
- The Immortality of the Soul (New York: Pub. at the Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1849), by Luther Lee (multiple formats at Google)
- Immortality of the Soul and Destiny of the Wicked (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, c1871), by N. L. Rice (page images at MOA)
- The Immortality of the Soul and the Final Condition of the Wicked Carefully Considered (New York: Carlton and Porter, 1859), by Robert W. Landis
- The Immortality of the Soul and the Final Condition of the Wicked Carefully Considered (fifth thousand; New York: Carlton and Lanahan, 1868), by Robert W. Landis (PDF at Wayback Machine)
- Life Everlasting (1901), by John Fiske (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Natural History of Immortality (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1891), by Joseph William Reynolds (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Paradoxical Philosophy: A Sequel to The Unseen Universe (second edition; London: Macmillan and Co., 1879), by Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait
- Physical Theory of Another Life, by Isaac Taylor (page images at MOA)
- The Prospect of Immortality, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)
- The Unity of Man, or, Life and Death Realities: A Reply to Rev. Luther Lee (1850), by George Storrs (PDF at a2z.org)
- The Unseen Universe: or, Physical Speculations on a Future State (New York: Macmillan and Co., c1875), by Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait (page images at MOA)
- The Unseen Universe: or, Physical Speculations on a Future State (third edition; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1875), by Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Argument to Prove That Death is Not Obligatory on Christians (New York: Ennis Bros., 1875), by John Asgill, ed. by Tresham Dames Gregg (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Buddhism and Immortality (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908), by William Sturgis Bigelow (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- A History of the Doctrine of the Soul Among All Races and Peoples, Ancient and Modern, Including Theologians, Philosophers, Scientists, and Untutored Aboriginees (second edition, 1882), by Dudley Marvin Canright (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
- The Immortality of the Soul, by Hiram Mattison (page images at MOA)
- The Life After Death, and How Theosophy Unveils It, by C. W. Leadbeater (PDF at djm.cc)
- New Light on Immortality (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1908), by E. E. Fournier d'Albe
- Dynamic Idealism: An Elementary Course in the Metaphysics of Psychology, First Entered Upon in Lectures Before Students in Philosophy at the University of Michigan (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1898), by Alfred H. Lloyd
- Physical Theory of Another Life, by Isaac Taylor (page images at MOA)
- The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and in Peoples (London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Miguel de Unamuno, trans. by J. E. Crawford Flitch, contrib. by Salvador de Madariaga (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Excellent Treatise of the Immortalytie of the Soule (London: Printed by I. Daye, 1581), by Jean Calvin, trans. by Thomas Stocker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Two Treatises: In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies, In the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into, In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (Paris: Printed by G. Blaizot, 1644), by Kenelm Digby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Two Treatises: In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies, In the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into, In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (London: Printed for J. Williams, 1645), by Kenelm Digby (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Certainty of The Worlds of Spirits and, Consequently, of The Immortality of Souls of The Malice and Misery of The Devils and The Damned, and of The Blessedness of The Justified, Fully Evinced By The Unquestionable Histories of Apparitions, Operations, Witchcrafts, Voices &c. (title page misdated; London: Printed for T. Parkhurst and J. Salisbury, 1691), by Richard Baxter
- Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul, by David Hume (HTML at anselm.edu)
- Miss Ludington's Sister, by Edward Bellamy (Gutenberg text)
- Miss Ludington's Sister: A Romance of Immortality (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1884), by Edward Bellamy (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Miss Ludington's Sister: A Romance of Immortality (6th edition; Boston: Ticknor and Co., c1884), by Edward Bellamy (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Evidence of Immortality (San Francisco: Lotus Pub. Co., 1899), by Jerome A. Anderson
- Death not Life: or, The Destruction of the Wicked (12th edition; Buffalo: The author, 1868), by Jacob Blain (multiple formats at Google)
- Death not Life: or, The Theological Hell and Endless Misery Disproved, and the Doctrine of Destruction Established, by a Collection and Explanation of All Passages on Future Punishment; Also Metaphysical Arguments for the Immortality of the Wicked Exploded (New York: Pub. at the Office of the Bible Examiner, 1853), by Jacob Blain (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Spice for Spiritualists: or, The Dogma of an Immortal Life Examined and Considered (Philadelphia: T. W. Stuckey, 1875), by John J. Woodward (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Unity of the Faith (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1881), by William R. Hart (PDF at Wayback Machine)
- The State of the Dead and the Destiny of the Wicked (Battle Creek, MI: Steam Press of the Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association, 1873), by Uriah Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Doctrine of Annihilation in the Light of the Gospel of Love (London: Henry S. King and Co., 1875), by James Baldwin Brown
- Life and Death Eternal: A Refutation of the Theory of Annihilation (Boston: American Tract Society, c1866), by Samuel Colcord Bartlett (muleiple formats at Google)
- The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers (2 volumes; Washington: Review and Herald, c1965-1966), by Le Roy Edwin Froom (DjVu at adventistarchives.org)
- Human Destiny: A Critique on Universalism (1861), by Charles F. Hudson
- Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult, by Deborah J. Lyons (HTML at Princeton)
- This is Truth About the Self: An Interpretation of The Pattern on the Trestleboard (Los Angeles: Builders of the Adytum, c1960), by Ann Davies (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Die Sagen vom Lebensbaum und Lebenswasser: Altorientalische Mythen (in German; Leipzig: E. Pfeiffer, 1905), by Aug. Wünsche
- The Cure of Old Age, and Preservation of Youth (with Arrais's Arbor Vitae; London: Printed for T. Flesher and E. Evets, 1683), by Roger Bacon, trans. by Richard Browne, contrib. by Duarte Madeira Arrais
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Future life- After Death -- What? (revised electronic edition, c1998), by Leoline L. Wright (HTML at TUP)
- Mediumship and Survival: A Century of Investigations (London: W. Heinemann, c1982), by Alan Gauld (illustrated HTML at esalen.org)
- Claude's Book (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1919), by L. Kelway Bamber
- Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life, by E. A. Wallis Budge
- The Hopes of the Human Race, Hereafter and Here (New York: J. Miller, ca. 1876), by Frances Power Cobbe
- The Hopes of the Human Race, Hereafter and Here (second edition; London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1880), by Frances Power Cobbe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Immortality of the Soul, by Hiram Mattison (page images at MOA)
- Lumen (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1897), by Camille Flammarion
- The Passing -- And Life Afterward, by Max Heindel (illustrated HTML at rosicrucian.com)
- The Powers of the World to Come, by George B. Cheever (page images at MOA)
- After Death -- What? (Theosophical Manual #5; Point Loma, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1939), by Leoline L. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
- After Life in Roman Paganism (1922), by Franz Cumont (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) (based on the 1913 Medici Society text), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (HTML at Lysator)
- The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani (based on the 1895 text and commentary), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Book of the Psychic Society: A Study of the Fourteen Unseen Powers That Control Human Life; and Containing Immortality, A Scientific Demonstration of Life After Death (Washington: Ralston University Pub. Co., 1908), by Edmund Shaftesbury
- The Doctrine of Annihilation in the Light of the Gospel of Love (London: Henry S. King and Co., 1875), by James Baldwin Brown
- Here and Hereafter, or, Man in Life and Death: The Reward of the Righteous and the Destiny of the Wicked (Washington: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1897), by Uriah Smith (HTML with commentary at lionofjudah1.org)
- How I Know That the Dead Are Alive (Washington, DC: Plenty Pub. Co., 1917), by Fannie Ruthven Paget
- The Intermediate World (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1878), by L. T. Townsend (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On the Threshold of the Unseen: An Examination of the Phenomena of Spiritualism and of the Evidence for the Survival After Death (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1918), by William Barrett, contrib. by James H. Hyslop
- The Other Side of Death, Scientifically Examined and Carefully Described (Chicago: Theosophical Book Concern, 1903), by C. W. Leadbeater
- Raymond, or, Life and Death; With Examples of the Evidence for Survival of Memory and Affection After Death (New York: G.H. Doran Co., c1916), by Oliver Lodge (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Contact With the Other World: The Latest Evidence as to Communication With the Dead (New York: The Century Co., 1919), by James H. Hyslop
- Death-- and After?, by Annie Besant (Gutenberg text)
- The Immortality of the Soul (New York: Pub. at the Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1849), by Luther Lee (multiple formats at Google)
- The Nature of Spirit, and of Man as a Spiritual Being, by Chauncey Giles (HTML at swedenborgdigitallibrary.org)
- Nearing Home: Comforts and Counsels for the Aged, by William Edward Schenck (page images at MOA)
- Paradoxical Philosophy: A Sequel to The Unseen Universe (second edition; London: Macmillan and Co., 1879), by Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait
- Stories of Infinity: Lumen; History of a comet; In Infinity (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1873), by Camille Flammarion, trans. by S. R. Crocker (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Ministry of Angels Here and Beyond (fifth edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), by Joy Snell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Polynesian Analogues to the Celtic Other-World and Fairy Mistress Themes (extract from Vassar Mediaeval Studies; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923), by Martha Warren Beckwith (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Unity of Man, or, Life and Death Realities: A Reply to Rev. Luther Lee (1850), by George Storrs (PDF at a2z.org)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.