Religion, death, and dying
By: edited by Lucy Bregman
Series: Praeger perspectives; Praeger perspectives
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313351730; 9780313351754; 9780313351778; 9780313351792
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Perspectives on dying and death.; title: Role of the professional hospital chaplain  -- Florence Gelo; title: Knowledge-seeking wisdom: health care professionals, religion, and end-of-life care  -- Aaron Klink; title: Hospice and spiritual needs of the dying  -- Megory Anderson; title: Paradox of medical advances and inequalities in health care: the African-American experience  -- Richard Payne; title: Jewish perspectives on death and dying  -- Elliot N. Dorff; title: Christian perspectives on death and dying  -- Margaret R. McLean; title: North American Muslim perspectives on death and dying  -- Amir Hussain; title: Death is not final: attitudes toward dying, death, and medicalization among American Hindus  -- Lola Williamson; title: Death and Buddhist perspectives in America  -- Eve Mullen; title: Eternal life, death, and dying in Jainism  -- Christopher Key Chapple; title: Eastern Band of Cherokee: cultural revitalization and demedicalized death  -- Lisa Lefler and Ulrike Wiethaus -- v. 2. Special issues.; title: Death of a child  -- Dennis Klass; title: Hope deferred: theological reflections on infertility, miscarriage, and stillbirth  -- Mary Stimming; title: Alzheimer's disease: the folk morality of caregiving  -- Helen K. Black; title: Modern plague? AIDS and religion in American society  -- Dugan McGinley; title: Suicide and American religion: tradition and transformation  -- Mary Stimming; title: Homicide and American religion  -- Jon Pahl; title: Religion and the death penalty in America  -- Charles Brian McAdams; title: Warfare deaths: ethical and religious understanding in the American context  -- Lloyd Steffen; title: Evidence for life after death: an overview of the debate  -- Christopher Moreman -- v. 3. Bereavement and death rituals.; title: Funeral and mourning rituals in America: historical and cultural overview  -- Kathleen Garces-Foley; title: Grief and the rituals surrounding death: a Jewish approach  -- Rebecca Alpert; title: Rituals for dying, death, and bereavement among Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians  -- Regina A. Boisclair; title: Protestantism and death rituals  -- Glenn H. Asquith Jr.; title: African and African-American traditions in America  -- Tonya D. Armstrong; title: When death occurs: Islamic rituals and practices in the United States  -- Gisela Webb; title: Grieving tradition in a new land: Hindu death and dying rituals in America  -- Kyoko Murata; title: Great matter of life and death: death and dying practices in American Buddhism  -- Jeff Wilson; title: Diné (Navajo) narratives of death and bereavement  -- Lawrence Shorty and Ulrike Wiethaus; title: Mourning in America: civic ritual, public remembrance, and saving grace -- Stephen Johnson.