Death and Religion in a Changing World / Edition 1

by Kathleen Garces-Foley

Overview

Scholars and practitioners of religion and social sciences focus on the intersection of death and religion in order to understand how people enact, revise, and improvise religious practices in a rapidly modernizing world in which religion can no longer be dismissed as a purely therapeutic function. The major world religions are surveyed, as well as native Californians and Sikhs. Other topics include forms of disposal, spontaneous shrines, and disaster. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765612229
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/15/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kathleen Garces-Foley is a professor of religious studies at Marymount University, USA.

Table of Contents

1. At the Intersection of Death and Religion. Part I. Religious Approaches to Death: 2. Contemporary Hindu Approaches to Death, 3. Death and Dying in Buddhist Cultures, 4. Jewish Responses to Death and Mourning: Resilience in the Face of Dramatic Social Change, 5. Christian Approaches to Death , 6. Between the Prescribed and the Performed: Muslim Ways of Death and Mortality, 7. Sikh Ways of Dying: Religious Ceremonies in Changing Deathscapes, 8. "The Whole Damn State is a ‘Site!’": The Politics of Death and Burial in Native California. Part II. Death and Dying in Contemporary Societies: 9. Hospice: The Search for Better Dying, 10. Dying Well, Dying Badly: Ethical Issues at the End of Life, 11. Changing Funeral Practices in the United States, 12. Spontaneous Shrines and Public Memorialization in Historical Context, 13. Religion and Grief.