The study of afterlife has remained within the mythic mode because its non-empirical but impelling nature. Many scholars insist that death cannot be annihilative and debate is intensified as Wole Soyinka proposes robust African perspectives on existential issues life death. Akudaaya (‘transmigrated soul’) describes people returning to after death, a phenomenon, which regularly explored in Yorub...

This article studies the problem of eternal life from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the approaches of Bergson, Husserl, and Heidegger from contemporary philosophy, and shows that using these three philosophical approaches can better explain certain aspects of revealed theology, such as resurrection of flesh, eternity in a transcendent dimension, and eternal life as the angels in he...

Ambivalence is a prominent feature of religious traditions, with respect both to the attitudes exhibited in faith many practitioners and qualities embodied conceptions divine. Yet these ambivalences have received little scrutiny from philosophy religion, especially its analytic mode. Helping address this lacuna, current article comprises critical constructive components. In vein, it challenges ...

The concept of false friends suggests that language is essentially misleading. Words seem to be similar each other, but in fact often are not. This an aspect the general view philosophy and religion confusing. There scope for linking with idea enemies, where terms appear opposite other yet perhaps not as polarized reality. In fact, it sometimes argued we forget how things really linked up. So t...