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Understanding Death: An Introduction to Ideas of Self and the Afterlife in World Religions - Couverture souple

Sumegi, Angela

 
9781405153713: Understanding Death: An Introduction to Ideas of Self and the Afterlife in World Religions
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1405153717 ISBN 13 : 9781405153713
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Synopsis

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

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À propos de l'auteur

Angela Sumegi is Assistant Professor of Religion at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Dream Worlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism (2008). Outside academia, she teaches Buddhist meditation and is the founder and director of a Canadian charity that supports Tibetan refugee children in India.

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Éditeur
Wiley-Blackwell
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1405153717
ISBN 13 
9781405153713
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
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Personne responsable
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