With Karma and Rebirth: A Cross Cultural Study on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of smallscale indigenous societies of West Africa, Melanesia, and Noeth America, those of the ancient and modren Indic theories civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar, and Plato. *************************************************(MOTILAL BANARSIDASS)