Death and the World Religions
Author | : Walter Sisto |
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Release | : 2021-07-13 |
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ISBN | : 9781524929824 |
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Author | : Walter Sisto |
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Release | : 2021-07-13 |
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ISBN | : 9781524929824 |
Author | : Hiroshi Obayashi |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : |
Examines the subject of death and immortality in Africa, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece. Also from the point of view of the Old Testament, New Testament, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Tibetan Trantric and Chinese religions.
Author | : Steven Rosen |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2008-10-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0313356092 |
Like taxes, death is inevitable. Everyone experiences it sooner or later. This book offers perspectives on death and dying from all major religions, written by experts in each of those religions. Focusing on the major world traditions, it offers important information about what death and dying means to those practicing these faiths. The second part of the book adds a necessary and truly unique perspective - a personal look at how people actually die in the various world religions, as told by a hospital chaplain, with anecdotes and experiences that bring the death process to life, so to speak. Each chapter engages the theology of each religion, giving quotes from the literature of their respective scriptural traditions, to explain the process of dying, death, and the afterlife. In doing so, each author draws on the history of his respective tradition and looks at real-life figures, exemplars of the tradition, showing how practitioners view death and hope to one day engage the death process themselves.
Author | : Farnáz Maʻsúmián |
Publisher | : Kalimat Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781890688271 |
Author | : Angela Sumegi |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013-06-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1118323122 |
A comprehensive survey of how religions understand death, dying, and the afterlife, drawing on examples from Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and Shamanic perspectives. Considers shared and differing views of death across the world's major religions, including on the nature of death itself, the reasons for it, the identity of those who die, religious rituals, and on how the living should respond to death Places emphasis on the varying concepts of the 'self' or soul Uses a thematic structure to facilitate a broader comparative understanding Written in an accessible style to appeal to an undergraduate audience, it fills major gap in current textbook literature
Author | : Lucy Bregman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2019-04-16 |
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ISBN | : 9781524982553 |
Author | : Christopher Jay Johnson |
Publisher | : Charles Press Pubs(PA) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780914783855 |
This new second edition presents a clear, concise and comparative overview of the teachings and the death beliefs of the largest and fastest-growing religions in North America. Unlike many books on the subject of religious beliefs, the discourse here is refreshingly objective and nonproselytizing. Furthermore, each chapter is written by a different expert or scholar who is internationally recognized as an authority on a particular faith. - Back cover.
Author | : Christopher M. Moreman |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2008-09-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0742565521 |
Beyond the Threshold is the first book to seriously consider the interplay between traditional world religions and metaphysical experiences in exploring the timeless question of what happens when we die. Christopher M. Moreman examines and compares the beliefs and practices of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, as well as psychic phenomena such as mediums and near-death experiences. While ultimately the afterlife remains unknowable, Moreman's unique, in-depth exploration of both beliefs and experiences can help readers reach their own understanding of the afterlife and how to live.
Author | : Kristina Myrvold |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317036409 |
The Death of Sacred Texts draws attention to a much neglected topic in the study of sacred texts: the religious and ritual attitudes towards texts which have become old and damaged and can no longer be used for reading practices or in religious worship. This book approaches religious texts and scriptures by focusing on their physical properties and the dynamic interactions of devices and habits that lie beneath and within a given text. In the last decades a growing body of research studies has directed attention to the multiple uses and ways people encounter written texts and how they make them alive, even as social actors, in different times and cultures. Considering religious people seem to have all the motives for giving their sacred texts a respectful symbolic treatment, scholars have paid surprisingly little attention to the ritual procedures of disposing and renovating old texts. This book fills this gap, providing empirical data and theoretical analyses of historical and contemporary religious attitudes towards, and practices of text disposals within, seven world religions: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. Exploring the cultural and historical variations of rituals for religious scriptures and texts (such as burials, cremations and immersion into rivers) and the underlying beliefs within the religious traditions, this book investigates how these religious practices and stances respond to modernization and globalization processes when new technologies have made it possible to mass-produce and publish religious texts on the Internet.
Author | : Kenneth Kramer |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780809129423 |
Examines how each of the major religions looks at death by including stories, teachings, and rituals that present a comparative religious meaning of death and afterlife. Written in textbook style with journal exercises at the end of each chapter. +