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Religion, death, and dying /
What do various spiritual and ethical belief systems have to say about modern medicine's approach to the end of life? Do all major religions characterize the afterlife in similar ways? How do funeral rites and rituals vary across different faiths? Now there is one resource that gathers leading...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
Praeger Publishers,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Praeger perspectives.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- v. 1. Perspectives on dying and death. Role of the professional hospital chaplain / Florence Gelo
- Knowledge-seeking wisdom: health care professionals, religion, and end-of-life care / Aaron Klink
- Hospice and spiritual needs of the dying / Megory Anderson
- Paradox of medical advances and inequalities in health care: the African-American experience / Richard Payne
- Jewish perspectives on death and dying / Elliot N. Dorff
- Christian perspectives on death and dying / Margaret R. McLean
- North American Muslim perspectives on death and dying / Amir Hussain
- Death is not final: attitudes toward dying, death, and medicalization among American Hindus / Lola Williamson
- Death and Buddhist perspectives in America / Eve Mullen
- Eternal life, death, and dying in Jainism / Christopher Key Chapple
- Eastern Band of Cherokee: cultural revitalization and demedicalized death / Lisa Lefler and Ulrike Wiethaus
- v. 2. Special issues. Death of a child / Dennis Klass
- Hope deferred: theological reflections on infertility, miscarriage, and stillbirth / Mary Stimming
- Alzheimer's disease: the folk morality of caregiving / Helen K. Black
- Modern plague? AIDS and religion in American society / Dugan McGinley
- Suicide and American religion: tradition and transformation / Mary Stimming
- Homicide and American religion / Jon Pahl
- Religion and the death penalty in America / Charles Brian McAdams
- Warfare deaths: ethical and religious understanding in the American context / Lloyd Steffen
- Evidence for life after death: an overview of the debate / Christopher Moreman
- v. 3. Bereavement and death rituals. Funeral and mourning rituals in America: historical and cultural overview / Kathleen Garces-Foley
- Grief and the rituals surrounding death: a Jewish approach / Rebecca Alpert
- Rituals for dying, death, and bereavement among Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians / Regina A. Boisclair
- Protestantism and death rituals / Glenn H. Asquith Jr.
- African and African-American traditions in America / Tonya D. Armstrong
- When death occurs: Islamic rituals and practices in the United States / Gisela Webb
- Grieving tradition in a new land: Hindu death and dying rituals in America / Kyoko Murata
- Great matter of life and death: death and dying practices in American Buddhism / Jeff Wilson
- Diné (Navajo) narratives of death and bereavement / Lawrence Shorty and Ulrike Wiethaus
- Mourning in America: civic ritual, public remembrance, and saving grace / Stephen Johnson.