Death - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718824431 ISBN 13: 9780718824433

Publisher: Lutterworth Press, 1980

Synopsis

A child's development includes learning the important distinction between things that go away and come back, and things that go away never to return. Life, or rather death, is one thing that the world in unable to agree upon in this respect. Belief that life in some way continues beyond the grave may be described as man's oldest religious conviction, and we find pre-historic figures buried with tools and ornaments for use in a supposed after-life. But attitudes to death and what lies beyond, as well as the funeral liturgies and burial customs that accompany death vary greatly according to faith and culture. 'Death' presents these differences in attitudes and customs, providing an example of the variation in world religions in a quest for inter-faith understanding and respect. Death is one of three books in the 'Living Faiths' series, which includes 'Marriage and the Family' (ISBN 9780718824440) and 'Initiation Rites' (ISBN 9780718830878), this series aims to promote a comprehensive Inter-faith understanding by outlining the diverse attitudes and ceremonies related to rites of passage in different faiths. The series has close links with the Standing Conference on Inter-Faith Dialogue in Education, of which the series editor was former Publications Secretary.

About this title

About the Author

John Prickett was a headmaster and Secretary of the Education Department of the British Council of Churches. He was also Publications Secretary of the Standing Conference of Inter-Faith Dialogue in Education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718824431
• ISBN 13: 9780718824433
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Prickett John