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Author:   Christopher Moreman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.980kg
ISBN:  

9780367581268

ISBN 10:   0367581264
Pages:   612
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"List of Contributors Introduction – Christopher M. Moreman Section 1: Religious Approaches to Death and the Afterlife 1. Catholic Views of the Afterlife – Diana Walsh Pasulka 2. Protestant Views of the Afterlife – Mark S. Sweetnam 3. Mormon Views of the Afterlife – Daniel Belnap 4. Christian Funerary Traditions – Thomas G. Long 5. Jewish Views of the Afterlife – Dan Cohn-Sherbok 6. Jewish Funeral and Mourning Practices – Vanessa L. Ochs 7. Muslim Views of the Afterlife – David Cook 8. Funerary Culture in Islam – Amila Buturovic 9. Zoroastrian Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Almut Hintze 10. Sikh Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Arvind-Pal S. Mandair 11. Hindu Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – T. S. Rukmani 12. Jaina Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Peter Flügel 13. Theravāda Buddhist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Rachelle M. Scott 14. Tibetan Buddhist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Matthew T. Kapstein 15. Shinto and Death: From Cultural Roots to Contemporary Thought – Stuart D. B. Picken 16. Early Chinese Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Mu-chou Poo 17. Contemporary Daoist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Adeline Herrou 18. North American Indigenous Afterlife Beliefs – Joseph A. P. Wilson 19. African Afterlife Beliefs – Zayin Cabot 20. Overcoming Death in New Religious Movements – Susan J. Palmer 21. Afterlife Beliefs in the Spiritualist Movement – Walter Meyer zu Erpen 22. Death and the Afterlife in the Raëlian Religion – Erik A. W. Östling & James R. Lewis Section 2: General Beliefs and Practices 23. Heavens and Hells – Eileen Gardiner 24. Reincarnation – James A. Santucci 25. Mysticism – Thomas Quartier 26. The American Cemetery – Albert N. Hamscher 27. Cremation – Douglas J. Davies 28. Mummification – Heather Gill-Frerking 29. Digital Memorial – Candi K. Cann Section 3: Liminal States and Liminal Beings 30. Near-Death Experiences – Gregory Shushan 31. Past-life Memories – Jim B. Tucker 32. Ghosts – Owen Davies 33. Angels – John Charles Arnold & Tony Walter 34. The Undead: Vampires and Zombies – John Edgar Browning 35. Animals – Barbara R. Ambros & Laura Hobgood 36. Organ Donation and Spirit Possession – Lesley A. Sharp Section 4: On Dying 37. Defining Medical Death – James L. Bernat 38. The Death Awareness Movement – Lucy Bregman 39. Conceptual Approaches to Understanding the Dying Process – Kenneth J. Doka 40. The Cross-Cultural Study of Grief – Dennis Klass 41. A ""Good Death"" in Hospice Palliative Care – Harold Coward & Elizabeth Causton 42. Assisted Dying – Paul Badham Section 5: Additional Ethical Considerations 43. Suicide: Psychopathology, Existential Choice, or Religious/Cultural Influences – Mark M. Leach & Frederick T. L. Leong 44. Martyrdom – Paul Middleton 45. The Psychology of Mass Murder and Serial Killing – Katherine Ramsland 46. Abortion – Daniel C. Maguire 47. Intellectual Disability and the End of Life"

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A remarkably impressive collection of various points of view on death and afterlife. The joining of conventional religious worldviews with the latest research coming out of psychical science - including the near-death experience, children's reincarnational memories, and ghosts the world over - is especially noteworthy. A professor teaching a course on death couldn't do better than selecting this as his or her one and only text for the course. Stafford Betty, California State University, USA.

A remarkably impressive collection of various points of view on death and afterlife. The joining of conventional religious worldviews with the latest research coming out of psychical science - including the near-death experience, children’s reincarnational memories, and ghosts the world over - is especially noteworthy. A professor teaching a course on death couldn’t do better than selecting this as his or her one and only text for the course. Stafford Betty, California State University, USA.

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Christopher M. Moreman is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies at California State University, East Bay, USA.

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