The Afterlife Is Where We Come From by Alma Gottlieb

The Afterlife Is Where We Come From

Alma Gottlieb

434 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction education sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant is thought to begin its life filled with spir...

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