What happens when you die? The ways different cultures and individuals respond to this question determines not only the rise of different practices and institutions, both secular and religious, but crucially informs the way people conduct their lives. The Afterlife Research Centre (ARC) is a research network and virtual forum which aims to generate and disseminate cross-cultural ethnographic research into the meaning and relevance of afterlife beliefs in people’s lives. As ethnographers with a background in anthropology we are not seeking to prove a case, but wish to develop ethnographic methodologies to investigate, without explaining away, the effects of beliefs and practices relating to the Afterlife, such as: the Spirit World, mediumship, trance, possession, shamanism, the paranormal and religious experience.


ARC Forum

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A network of people interested in Afterlife Research
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ARC Workshop 2011

To listen to the workshop presentations online click here
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