Death and Religion: The Basics - Softcover

Cann, Candi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367111306 ISBN 13: 9780367111304

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

Death and Religion: The Basics provides a thorough and accessible introduction to dying, death, grief, and conceptions of the afterlife in world religions.

It leads readers through considerations of how we understand meanings of death and after-death, and the theories and practices attached to these states of being, with recourse to various religious worldviews: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Chinese Religions, and Native American belief systems. This inter-religious approach provides a rich, dynamic survey of varying and evolving cultural attitudes to death. Topics covered include:

• Religious perspectives of "the good death"
• Grief, bereavement, and mourning
• Stages and definitions of death
• Burial, cremation, and disposition
• Remembrance rituals
• Religious theories of the afterlife
• Death and technology

Featuring a glossary, suggestions for further reading in each chapter and key terms, this is the ideal text for students approaching the intersection of death and religion for the first time, and those in the fields of religious studies, thanatology, anthropology, philosophy, and sociology.

About this title

About the Author

Candi K. Cann is an Associate Professor of Religion in the Honors College at Baylor University, USA. She chairs the Death, Dying, and Beyond committee for the American Academy of Religion, is a former Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University, and a Fulbright Scholar at Han Nam University in South Korea (2023). Check out her website for a full list of her many publications, talks and interviews: www.candikcann.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367111306
• ISBN 13: 9780367111304
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 188