Title The eclipse of eternity : a sociology of the afterlife / Tony Walter.

Publication Info.

Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1996.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	133.9 W234E	Check Shelf

Description	ix, 222 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Bibliography: pages 201-214. - Includes index.
Contents	1. The Afterlife: A Theological Survey -- 2. The Afterlife: Popular Beliefs Today -- 3. Secularisation and the Terror of Death -- 4. Idealist and Materialist Explanations -- 5. Medicine: the Secularisation of Hope -- 6. The Secularisation of Ritual: Funerals and Burials -- 7. The Secularisation of Ritual: Cremation and Dissection -- 8. Loss: The Secularisation of Meaning -- 9. Retrospect and Prospect -- 10. Pastoral Care -- 11. Heavens on Earth -- 12. Ethics without Eternity -- 13. The Reappearance of the Hereafter -- 14. The Eclipse of Eternity.
Subject	Eternity.
	Eternity -- Social aspects.
	Death -- Social aspects.
	Death -- Religious aspects.
	Religious life.
Indexed Term	Future life
Subject	Dood.
	Hiernamaals.
	Eeuwig leven.
	Éternité -- Aspect social.
	Sociologie de la mort.
	Mort -- Aspect religieux.
	Vie future.
	Vie religieuse.
ISBN	0333616146
	9780333616147
	0312159331 (U.S.)
	9780312159337 (U.S.)

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