Death and dying in world religions
By: edited by Lucy Bregman
Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing; Brand: Kendall Hunt Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dubuque, IA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780757568381
Other titles: Death & dying in world religions
Notes: Includes bibliographic references.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1.; title: Life stinks, but death is worse : the ancient Mesopotamian view of life and death  -- Theodore R. Lorah, Jr. -- Chapter 2.; title: Death and the afterlife in Plato and the Greeks  -- John W. M. Krummel -- Chapter 3.; title: Death and dying: a Jewish approach  -- Rebecca Alpert -- Chapter 4; title: Protestant Christian views on death, dying, and afterlife  -- Lucy Bregman -- Chapter 5.; title: The Roman Catholic views on sickness, death, and dying  -- Joseph McGovern -- Chapter 6.; title: Death and dying in Islam: "this day your sight is made keen"  -- Gisela Webb -- Chapter 7.; title: On death and after in Brahmanic Hindu India  -- William Cully Allen -- Chapter 8.; title: Tibetan Buddhist views on death : compassion and liberation  -- Eve Mullen -- Chapter 9.; title: The Chinese experience of death : continuity in transition  -- Amy Weigand -- Chapter 10.; title: Death and dying in Japan  -- Pamela D. Winfield -- Chapter 10.; title: The Life of the dead in African and Africa diasporic religion -- Terry Rey.