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.
Steven J. Rosenis Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Vaishnava Studiesand 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).
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
Introduction
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
Hinduism
Afterward
contributors
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