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Routledge Companion to Death and Dying

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-05-23
Mått174 x 246 x 44 mm
Vikt1 220 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Religion Companions
Antal sidor594
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138852075

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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 – Laura A. Kicklighter48. Epidemic – Joseph P. ByrneSection 6: Additional Scholarly Perspectives49. Philosophical Perspectives – Steven Luper50. Anthropology and Death – Douglas J. Davies51. Mortuary Archaeology – Zoë Crossland & J. Suzi Wilson52. Death in Western Art and Literature – Christina Staudt

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.