Original scientific paper

The Dead Vampire: Ideas of afterlife within the vampire subculture

Matthias Christian Steiner ; University Graz, Catholic faculty of theology, Institute for Religious studies

Abstract

The vampire subculture is the most recent, and most radical, interpretation of the vampire-myth – where people identify themselves as actual and “real” vampires. Starting with their concepts of anthropology and worldview, the article’s aims is to investigate the subculture’s interpretations on death and dying, as well as on ideas of a potential other world. A special focus will therefore lie on their ideas on reincarnation and various conceptions adopted by the vampires from the New Age and neopagan movements. Their key concepts will be analysed and put into a historical framework.

Keywords

death; House Kheperu; immortality; Neopaganism; New Age; Ordo Strigoi VII; other-worldliness; reincarnation; vampire; vampire-subculture

Hrčak ID:

151527

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/151527

Publication date:

20.1.2016.

Article data in other languages: german

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