The skull exchanged
Subtitle: death and dying in traditional cultures, Hinduism and Christianity
By: Thomas Mooren.
Series: Studies in religious anthropology and the theology of death
Publisher: Media House
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Death -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.; Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [318]-334).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART ONE; title: The Skull and the Name: Death and Dying in; title: Traditional Cultures; title: 1. Death and the Animal; title: 2. The bad Death; title: 3. The 'mirroring of death: the Kwaio Ritual; title: 4. Other Anti-death Strategies; Death and pollution;; title: Death and Initiation; title: 5. Death: Continuity and Discontinuity; title: 6. The Climb to Eternity: the Fataleka; title: Way of Dying; title: PART TWO; title: Freedom beyond Skull and Name: Hinduism and the; title: Symbiosis of Life and Death; title: 1. Death and the Way of Ritual; title: 2. Death as Borderline and Expression of Dharma:; title: PrajIpati and Brahma; title: 3. The Soul and Its Migrations: the Contribution ot; title: Indian Tribal Religions to Classical Hinduism; title: 4. The Karmic Fact; title: 5. Death as Liberator; Living the Death state; title: 6. The Moralization of Death; title: 7. Death and Dying in Modern Hindu Thought; title: PART THREE; title: Golgotha, the Place of the Skull: Death and Dying in; title: Christianity; title: 1. The Weighing of the Heart; title: 2. Yahveh's Holiness; title: 3. From Martyrdom to Purgatory; title: 4. The Secularization of Death; title: 5. The Puritan Wayof Death and its End; title: 6. Conclusion: The Law of Exchange;; title: Death and Dying Today; title: Epilogue; title: Bibliography.