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1 online resource. |
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Routledge religion companions |
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Routledge religion companions.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Christopher M. Moreman; PART 1 Religious approaches to death and afterlife; 1 Catholic views of the afterlife / Diana Walsh Pasulka; 2 Protestant views of the afterlife / Mark S. Sweetnam; 3 Mormon afterlife beliefs and funerary practices / Daniel Belnap; 4 Christian funerary traditions / Thomas G. Long; 5 Jewish views of the afterlife / Dan Cohn-Sherbok; 6 Jewish funeral and mourning practices / Vanessa L. Ochs; 7 Muslim views of the afterlife / David Cook; 8 Funerary culture in Islam / Amila Buturovic; 9 Zoroastrian afterlife beliefs and funerary practices / Almut Hintze; 10 Sikh afterlife beliefs and funerary practices / Arvind-Pal S. Mandair; 11 Hindu afterlife beliefs and funerary practice / T. S. Rukmani. |
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12 Jaina afterlife beliefs and funerary practices / Peter Flügel; 13 Theravāda Buddhist afterlife beliefs and funerary practices / Rachelle M. Scott; 14 Tibetan Buddhist afterlife beliefs and funerary practices / Matthew T. Kapstein; 15 Shinto and death : from cultural roots to contemporary thought / Stuart D. B. Picken; 16 Early Chinese afterlife beliefs and funerary practices / Mu-Chou Poo; 17 Contemporary Daoist afterlife beliefs and funerary practices / Adeline Herrou; 18 North American indigenous afterlife beliefs / Joseph A. P. Wilson; 19 African afterlife beliefs / Zayin Cabot; 20 Overcoming death in new religious movements / Susan J. Palmer; 21 Afterlife beliefs in the Spiritualist movement / Walter Meyer Zu Erpen; 22 Death and the afterlife in the Raëlian religion / Erik A. W. Östling & James R. Lewis. |
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PART 2 General beliefs and practices; 23 Heavens and hells / Eileen Gardiner; 24 Reincarnation / James A. Santucci; 25 Mysticism / Thomas Quarter; 26 The American cemetery / Albert N. Hamscher; 27 Cremation / Douglas J. Davies; 28 Mummification / Heather Gill-Frerking; 29 Digital memorials / Candi K. Cann; PART 3 Liminal states and liminal beings; 30 Near-death experiences / Gregory Shushan; 31 Past-life memories / Jim B. Tucker; 32 Ghosts / Owen Davies; 33 Angels / John Charles Arnold & Tony Walter; 34 The undead : vampires and zombies / John Edgar Browning; 35 Animals / Barbara R. Ambros & Laura Hobgood; 36 The talking dead in organ donation and spirit possession / Lesley A. Sharp; PART 4 On dying; 37 Defining death / James L. Bernat; 38 The Death Awareness Movement / Lucy Bregman; 39 Conceptual approaches to understanding the dying process / Kenneth J. Doka; 40 The cross-cultural study of grief / Dennis Klass. |
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41 A "good death" in hospice palliative care / Harold Coward & Elizabeth Causton; 42 Assisted dying / Paul Badham; PART 5 Additional ethical considerations; 43 Suicide : psychopathology, existential choice, or religious/cultural influences / Mark M. Leach & Frederick T. L. Leong; 44 Martyrdom / Paul Middleton; 45 The psychology of mass murder and serial killing / Katherine Ramsland; 46 Abortion / Daniel C. Maguire; 47 Intellectual disability and the end of life / Laura A. Kicklighter; 48 Epidemic / Joseph P. Byrne; PART 6 Additional scholarly perspectives; 49 Philosophical perspectives / Steven Luper; 50 Anthropology and death / Douglas J. Davies; 51 Mortuary archaeology / Zöe Crossland & J. Suzi Wilson; 52 Death in Western art and literature / Christina Staudt; Index. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
"Few issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains, to defining death, to suggesting what happens after life. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying provides readers with an overview of the study of death and dying. Questions of death, mortality, and more recently of end-of-life care, have long been important ones and scholars from a range of fields have approached the topic in a number of ways. Comprising over fifty-two chapters from a team of international contributors, the companion covers:funerary and mourning practices;concepts of the afterlife;psychical issues associated with death and dying;clinical and ethical issues;philosophical issues;death and dying as represented in popular culture.This comprehensive collection of essays will bring together perspectives from fields as diverse as history, philosophy, literature, psychology, archaeology and religious studies, while including various religious traditions, including established religions like Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism as well as new or less widely known traditions such as the Spiritualist Movement, the Church of Latter Day Saints, and Raëlianism. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, philosophy and literature."--Provided by publisher. |
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Death -- Religious aspects.
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Religions.
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Death.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Gaia & Earth Energies
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RELIGION / Christianity / General
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RELIGION / Theology
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Death. (OCoLC)fst00888613
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Death -- Religious aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00888649
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Religions. (OCoLC)fst01093898
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Moreman, Christopher M., 1974- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Routledge companion to death and dying. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018 9781138852075 (DLC) 2016057654 (OCoLC)975370018 |
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9781317528876 (electronic bk.) |
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1317528875 (electronic bk.) |
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9781315723747 (ebook) |
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1315723743 (ebook) |
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9781138852075 |
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1138852074 |
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