Patterns of Transcendence: Religion, Death, and Dying - Couverture souple

Chidester, David

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

Synopsis

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.

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9780534117306: Patterns of Transcendence: Religion, Death and Dying

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ISBN 10 :  0534117309 ISBN 13 :  9780534117306
Editeur : Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 1989
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