Patterns of Transcendence Religion, Death, and Dying

Name: Patterns of Transcendence Religion, Death, and Dying
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ISBN: 9780534506070

ISBN-10: 0534506070

ISBN-13: 9780534506070

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: David Chidester

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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.

Book details

List price: $99.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 8/3/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface



Religion, Death, and Dying


Death and Human Persons


Biological Death


Psychological Death


Sociological Death


Death and Religious Transcendence


Ancestral Transcendence


Experiential Transcendence


Cultural Transcendence


Mythic Transcendence


Death and Religious Practices


Arts of Dying


Rituals of Death


Religion, Death, and Dying


References



Indigenous Transcendence


Australian Dreamtime


The Dreaming


Initiation


Death Rituals


African Ancestors


The Origin of Death


Ancestors


Death Rituals


American Spirits


Forests


Deserts


Indigenous Transcendence


References



Asian Transcendence


Hindu Liberation


Vedic Ritual


Liberating Knowledge


Liberating Devotion


Buddhist Meditation


Nirvana


Death Meditations


Chinese Harmony


Confucian Balance


Taoist Immortality


Buddhist Rebirth


Japanese Disciplines


Zen Masters


Bushido Warriors


Asian Transcendence


References



The Tibetan Book of the Dead


Dying


Chikhai Bardo


The Hour of Death


Illusions


Chonyid Bardo


Mental Life After Death


Rebirth


Sidpa Bardo


Reincarnation


The Tibetan Book of the Dead


References



Abrahamic Transcendence


Ancient Myths


Ancient Egypt


Ancient Mesopotamia


Ancient Persia


Jewish Resurrection


Ancient Israel


Apocalypse


The World to Come


Christian Eschatology


Immortality and Resurrection


The Return of Jesus


Waiting for the End


Islamic Mystics


Qur'an and Tradition


Sufi Mystics


Abrahamic Transcendence


References



The Divine Comedy


Hell


Descent


Continuity


Tours of Hell


Purgatory


Purification


Myth and Ritual


Catholics and Protestants


Heaven


Ascent


The Vision of God


The Divine Comedy


References



Living Transcendence


Grieving


Grief, Bereavement, and Mourning


Modern Management


Mediating Grief


Communicating


Exchanging


Apologizing


Teaching


Channeling


Memorializing


Memorial Space


Memorial Time


Moving Memorials


Living


Secular Spirituality


Ordinary Transcendence


Living Transcendence


References


Index