num_pages: 280
description: A comprehensive survey of how religions understand death dying and the afterlife drawing on examples from Christian Jewish Hindu Buddhist and Shamanic perspectives.Considers shared and differing views of death across the world's major religions including on the nature of death itself the reasons for it the identity of those who die religious rituals and on how the living should respond to death Places emphasis on the varying concepts of the 'self' or soul Uses a thematic structure to facilitate a broader comparative understanding Written in an accessible style to appeal to an undergraduate audience it fills major gap in current textbook literature
language: None
title: Understanding Death: An Introduction to Ideas of Self and the Afterlife in World Religions
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell