Routledge Companion to Death and Dying

Christopher M. Moreman is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies at California State University, East Bay, USA.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction – Christopher M. MoremanSection 1: Religious Approaches to Death and the Afterlife1. Catholic Views of the Afterlife – Diana Walsh Pasulka2. Protestant Views of the Afterlife – Mark S. Sweetnam3. Mormon Views of the Afterlife – Daniel Belnap4. Christian Funerary Traditions – Thomas G. Long5. Jewish Views of the Afterlife – Dan Cohn-Sherbok6. Jewish Funeral and Mourning Practices – Vanessa L. Ochs7. Muslim Views of the Afterlife – David Cook8. Funerary Culture in Islam – Amila Buturovic9. Zoroastrian Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Almut Hintze10. Sikh Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Arvind-Pal S. Mandair11. Hindu Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – T. S. Rukmani12. Jaina Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Peter Flügel13. Theravāda Buddhist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Rachelle M. Scott14. Tibetan Buddhist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Matthew T. Kapstein15. Shinto and Death: From Cultural Roots to Contemporary Thought – Stuart D. B. Picken16. Early Chinese Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Mu-chou Poo17. Contemporary Daoist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Adeline Herrou18. North American Indigenous Afterlife Beliefs – Joseph A. P. Wilson19. African Afterlife Beliefs – Zayin Cabot20. Overcoming Death in New Religious Movements – Susan J. Palmer21. Afterlife Beliefs in the Spiritualist Movement – Walter Meyer zu Erpen22. Death and the Afterlife in the Raëlian Religion – Erik A. W. Östling & James R. LewisSection 2: General Beliefs and Practices23. Heavens and Hells – Eileen Gardiner24. Reincarnation – James A. Santucci25. Mysticism – Thomas Quartier26. The American Cemetery – Albert N. Hamscher27. Cremation – Douglas J. Davies28. Mummification – Heather Gill-Frerking29. Digital Memorial – Candi K. CannSection 3: Liminal States and Liminal Beings30. Near-Death Experiences – Gregory Shushan31. Past-life Memories – Jim B. Tucker32. Ghosts – Owen Davies33. Angels – John Charles Arnold & Tony Walter34. The Undead: Vampires and Zombies – John Edgar Browning35. Animals – Barbara R. Ambros & Laura Hobgood36. Organ Donation and Spirit Possession – Lesley A. SharpSection 4: On Dying37. Defining Medical Death – James L. Bernat38. The Death Awareness Movement – Lucy Bregman39. Conceptual Approaches to Understanding the Dying Process – Kenneth J. Doka40. The Cross-Cultural Study of Grief – Dennis Klass41. A "Good Death" in Hospice Palliative Care – Harold Coward & Elizabeth Causton42. Assisted Dying – Paul BadhamSection 5: Additional Ethical Considerations43. Suicide: Psychopathology, Existential Choice, or Religious/Cultural Influences – Mark M. Leach & Frederick T. L. Leong 44. Martyrdom – Paul Middleton45. The Psychology of Mass Murder and Serial Killing – Katherine Ramsland46. Abortion – Daniel C. Maguire47. Intellectual Disability and the End of Life

A remarkably impressive collection of various points of view on death and afterlife. The joining of conventional religious worldviews with the latest research coming out of psychical science - including the near-death experience, children’s reincarnational memories, and ghosts the world over - is especially noteworthy. A professor teaching a course on death couldn’t do better than selecting this as his or her one and only text for the course. Stafford Betty, California State University, USA.