Ultimate Journey: Death and Dying in the World's Major Religions

by Steven Rosen

Overview

Like taxes, death is inevitable. Everyone experiences it sooner or later. This book offers perspectives on death and dying from all major religions, written by experts in each of those religions. Focusing on the major world traditions, it offers important information about what death and dying means to those practicing these faiths. The second part of the book adds a necessary and truly unique perspective - a personal look at how people actually die in the various world religions, as told by a hospital chaplain, with anecdotes and experiences that bring the death process to life, so to speak.

Each chapter engages the theology of each religion, giving quotes from the literature of their respective scriptural traditions, to explain the process of dying, death, and the afterlife. In doing so, each author draws on the history of his respective tradition and looks at real-life figures, exemplars of the tradition, showing how practitioners view death and hope to one day engage the death process themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313356087
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/30/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Steven J. Rosen is Editor-in-Chief of the Jourbanal of Vaishnava Studies and Associate Editor of Back to Godhead, the magazine of the Hare Krishna movement. His recent books include Holy Cow: The Hare Krishna Contribution to Vegetarianism and Animal Rights, Essential Hinduism (Greenwood, 2006), and Krishna's Song: A New look at the Bhagavad Gita (Praeger, 2007).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
Hinduism
Afterward contributors

Editorial Reviews

Readers who will benefit most are religious scholars and professionals, especially persons working in hospice settings and those seeking to offer support in dying to persons of diverse faith and cultures. Summing Up: Recommended.” —Choice

“Highly recommended for public and academic libraries and as a resource for the comparative study of religions.” —MultiCultural Review

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