{"product_id":"the-routledge-companion-to-death-and-dying-9781138852075","title":"The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains, to defining death, to suggesting what happens after life. \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Companion to Death and Dying\u003c\/i\u003e provides readers with an overview of the study of death and dying. Questions of death, mortality, and more recently of end-of-life care, have long been important ones and scholars from a range of fields have approached the topic in a number of ways. Comprising over fifty-two chapters from a team of international contributors, the companion\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecovers:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003efunerary and mourning practices;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003econcepts of the afterlife;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003epsychical issues associated with death and dying;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eclinical and ethical issues;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ephilosophical issues;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003edeath and dying as represented in popular culture.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive collection of essays will \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA remarkably impressive collection of various points of view on death and afterlife. The joining of conventional religious worldviews with the latest research coming out of psychical science - including the near-death experience, children’s reincarnational memories, and ghosts the world over - is especially noteworthy. A professor teaching a course on death couldn’t do better than selecting this as his or her one and only text for the course. \u003cstrong\u003eStafford Betty\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCalifornia State University, USA.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – Christopher M. Moreman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 1: Religious Approaches to Death and the Afterlife\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Catholic Views of the Afterlife – Diana Walsh Pasulka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Protestant Views of the Afterlife – Mark S. Sweetnam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Mormon Views of the Afterlife – Daniel Belnap\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Christian Funerary Traditions – Thomas G. Long\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Jewish Views of the Afterlife – Dan Cohn-Sherbok\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Jewish Funeral and Mourning Practices – Vanessa L. Ochs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Muslim Views of the Afterlife – David Cook\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Funerary Culture in Islam – Amila Buturovic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Zoroastrian Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Almut Hintze\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Sikh Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Arvind-Pal S. Mandair\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Hindu Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – T. S. Rukmani\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. Jaina Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Peter Flügel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. Theravāda Buddhist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Rachelle M. Scott\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. Tibetan Buddhist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Matthew T. Kapstein\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15. Shinto and Death: From Cultural Roots to Contemporary Thought – Stuart D. B. Picken\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16. Early Chinese Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Mu-chou Poo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17. Contemporary Daoist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Adeline Herrou\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18. North American Indigenous Afterlife Beliefs – Joseph A. P. Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19. African Afterlife Beliefs – Zayin Cabot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e20. Overcoming Death in New Religious Movements – Susan J. Palmer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21. Afterlife Beliefs in the Spiritualist Movement – Walter Meyer zu Erpen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e22. Death and the Afterlife in the Raëlian Religion – Erik A. W. Östling \u0026amp; James R. Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 2: General Beliefs and Practices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e23. Heavens and Hells – Eileen Gardiner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e24. Reincarnation – James A. Santucci\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e25. Mysticism – Thomas Quartier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e26. The American Cemetery – Albert N. Hamscher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e27. Cremation – Douglas J. Davies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e28. Mummification – Heather Gill-Frerking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e29. Digital Memorial – Candi K. Cann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 3: Liminal States and Liminal Beings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e30. Near-Death Experiences – Gregory Shushan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e31. Past-life Memories – Jim B. Tucker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e32. Ghosts – Owen Davies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e33. Angels – John Charles Arnold \u0026amp; Tony Walter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e34. The Undead: Vampires and Zombies – John Edgar Browning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e35. Animals – Barbara R. Ambros \u0026amp; Laura Hobgood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e36. Organ Donation and Spirit Possession – Lesley A. Sharp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 4: On Dying\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e37. Defining Medical Death – James L. Bernat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e38. The Death Awareness Movement – Lucy Bregman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e39. Conceptual Approaches to Understanding the Dying Process – Kenneth J. Doka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e40. The Cross-Cultural Study of Grief – Dennis Klass\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e41. A \"Good Death\" in Hospice Palliative Care – Harold Coward \u0026amp; Elizabeth Causton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e42. Assisted Dying – Paul Badham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 5: Additional Ethical Considerations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e43. Suicide: Psychopathology, Existential Choice, or Religious\/Cultural Influences – Mark M. Leach \u0026amp; Frederick T. L. Leong \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e44. Martyrdom – Paul Middleton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e45. The Psychology of Mass Murder and Serial Killing – Katherine Ramsland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e46. Abortion – Daniel C. Maguire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e47. Intellectual Disability and the End of Life – Laura A. Kicklighter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e48. Epidemic – Joseph P. Byrne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 6: Additional Scholarly Perspectives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e49. Philosophical Perspectives – Steven Luper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e50. Anthropology and Death – Douglas J. Davies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e51. Mortuary Archaeology – Zoë Crossland \u0026amp; J. Suzi Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e52. 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