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Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology
Published by Institute for Advanced Science, Social, and Sustainable Future
ISSN : -     EISSN : 3025275X     DOI : https://doi.org/10.61511/lad.v1i1.2023
Core Subject : Religion, Humanities, Social,
Religion Humanities Social Sciences
Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology focuses on multidisciplinary studies from religion, philosophy, social, psychology, literature, anthropology and other relevant fields. The research collaborates theories and facts that were attached with life and death. This journal facilitates various critical aspect of common issues in sciences for recognizing impacts and phenomena due to life and death using multi-perspective of ideas.
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India in Hindu eschatology: A survey on kerala bhakti literature Thottathodi, Munawar Hanih
Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology Vol. 3 No. 2: (January) 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61511/lad.v3i2.2026.2292

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Background: This Research article analyzes the eschatological aspects of Kerala’s Bhakti literature to elucidate how devotional texts reflect India’s spiritual and political self-perception. This study is situated within the expansive domain of Hindu historical eschatology, examining the ways in which Bhakti poets like Ezhuthachan, Poonthanam Namboodiri, and Melpathur Bhattathiri reinterpreted scriptural concepts of Kaliyuga, moral decline, and salvation into vernacular forms that promote cultural renewal. Methods: The research utilizes a qualitative, interpretive methodology rooted in Gadamerian hermeneutic textual analysis. The study employs three analytical stages—textual exegesis, contextual interpretation, and conceptual synthesis—to identify key eschatological motifs, compare their manifestations across selected texts, and position them within Hindu philosophical cosmology and contemporary Indian political discourse. Findings: Comparative insights are also drawn between Hindu and Abrahamic ideas of apocalypse to elucidate the unique cyclical temporality and moral focus of Hindu eschatology. The findings indicate that Kerala’s Bhakti corpus reconceptualizes Kaliyuga not only as a mythical era of deterioration but also as a moral state wherein devotion emerges as the most straightforward and attainable route to redemption. Conclusion: These works further sanctify Bharath (India) as a redemptive geography—an eschatological realm where divine grace and moral regeneration converge. Bhakti literature serves as theology, moral philosophy, and proto-political discourse by connecting spiritual rebirth to India's historical resilience. The study's methodological constraint is its dependence on a restricted textual corpus, primarily Malayalam Bhakti works; yet, it lays the groundwork for further comparative research among different regional traditions. Novelty/Originality of this article: The article's originality is in the development of a conceptual model of Hindu historical eschatology, connecting devotional literature with political imagination, and illustrating how spiritual writings persist in influencing India's ethical and cultural modernity.
Haunted spaces, failing myths: Spatial ecology and the collapse of environmental imagination in indonesian horror cinema Angesty, Chintya; Fauzi, Muhammad
Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology Vol. 3 No. 2: (January) 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61511/lad.v3i2.2026.3110

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Background: The dystopian narrative that has long been used as a source of fear in Indonesian horror films has not been able to reduce the rate of environmental destruction. This phenomenon shows a gap between imagination and ecological awareness. This study attempts to address the failure of ecological myths through Indonesian horror film narratives in changing people's social behavior. Using Lefebvre's theory of the production of space, this study analyzes how haunted spaces are constructed as ideological arenas that reinforce fear without producing ecological reflection. This study aims to reveal how Indonesian horror cinema produces ecological spaces that are trapped in mysticism, and offers a new reading of the failure of Indonesian visual culture in building a critical ecological subjectivity. Methods: This study employs a qualitative design. Data were drawn from secondary sources in the form of Indonesian horror films released over the past two decades. Analysis involved repeated viewing and systematic note taking, with interpretations cross validated against ancillary sources. Findings: Analysis of three Indonesian ecological horror films, namely Angkerbatu (2007), Eva: Pendakian Terakhir (2025), and Kereta Berdarah (2024) shows that ecological space is represented in symbolic and mystical rather than reflective terms. Environmental issues are reduced to religious morality and local myth, and the relationship between humans and nature remains hierarchical and anthropocentric, reinforcing ritual ecology instead of encouraging a post-fear ecology. Indonesian cinematic space functions less as lived space and more as perceived space governed by the logics of industry, myth, and religion. Conclusion: These findings indicate that the failure to construct an ecological imagination is not merely a cinematic shortcoming but a reflection of social structures that struggle to envision nature beyond sacred or supernatural frames. Novelty/Originality of this article: The article advances a new reading of Indonesian horror cinema by integrating spatial production theory with cultural ecology and by introducing ritual ecology as a form of stagnant ecological consciousness. In doing so, it charts a new direction for ecocriticism and Southeast Asian cinema studies, showing how myth and fear configure an environmental imagination that resists reflection.
Re-reading the myth of medusa in ecological crisis Hasyim, Muhammad Fuad
Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology Vol. 3 No. 2: (January) 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61511/lad.v3i2.2026.3136

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Background: This paper reinterprets the myth of Medusa in the context of ecological crisis. By exploring the relationship between myth, the unconscious, the oppression of women, and nature, this paper attempts to reveal how hierarchical structures of domination shape the human perspective in understanding nature as an object. Methods: This study adopts a qualitative interpretative approach using symbolic hermeneutics grounded in Carl Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious and Hélène Cixous’ feminist deconstruction. Jung’s framework is used to read Medusa as an archetypal symbol of repressed fear and human–nature relations, while Cixous’ perspective critically reinterprets the myth to expose patriarchal narratives and reconstruct Medusa as a metaphor for liberation and ecological consciousness. Findings: This paper asserts that the root of the oppression and exploitation of nature lies in the binary logic that separates humans and nature. The human narrative of nature is also a narrative of domination, in which the distance between humans and nature is constantly maintained. Humans construct the "shortest distance" through an awareness of duality, distinguishing themselves from nature while remaining connected and dependent, and the "longest distance" through an awareness of an entity that places itself outside and above nature. As a result, humans become alienated from nature and lose the ability to listen to its voice. Conclusion: This paper concludes that restoring the position of nature and humans requires reclaiming the language of nature, which has been usurped by technology and the scientific revolution. A new ecological consciousness must arise from the recognition that humans are not the only subjects in power, but rather part of an interconnected web of life. Novelty/Originality of this article: Medusa's petrifying gaze and the nature gaze that awakens consciousness become reflective metaphors, suggesting that it is not only humans who are capable of conquering; nature can also "gaze back" through disasters, famine, drought, and death.

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