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This cross-cultural text examines social, religious, and cultural approaches to death and dying across Eastern and Western cultures and religious traditions. Organization of the book begins with an examination of death and dying among non-literate peoples in different parts of the world, then covers Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, and Japanese approaches, Western patterns of transcendence (ancient Middle East, Judaic, Christian, and Islamic), and concludes with a chapter on death and dying in contemporary America. It discusses four patterns of transcendence: ancestral, experiential, cultural, and mythic.
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1. Religion, Death, and Dying. 2. Indigenous Transcendence. 3. Asian Transcendence. 4. The Tibetan Book of the Dead. 5. Abrahamic Transcendence. 6. The Divine Comedy. 7. Living Transcendence. Index.
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Chidester (U. of Cape Town) was nicknamed Dr. Death while teaching a "Religious Approaches to Death" course at a California university. In this resurrection of the 1990 edition, the author treats religion as a means for transcending purely biological aspects of existence; compares diverse religions' rituals and beliefs about death; and examines gri
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- PublisherCengage Learning
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0534506070
- ISBN 13 9780534506070
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages276
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