Book Death and Dying in World Religions by Angela Sumegi FB2, EPUB
9781405153706 English 1405153709 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, One's first experience of death almost always results in questions. What happened? Why? What do we do now? This book begins with an exploration of the questions that death evokes and that various religious traditions purport to answer: What is death? Why is death? Who dies? Where from here? How do we get there? Following the introductory discussion, subsequent chapters take the reader through the main responses of several religious traditions. The book is organized so that each religion is treated as a discrete unit and will draw the attention of students to the differences and correspondences that appear across time and cultures. I aim to highlight the differences in conceptions of self and world that inform the way humans interpret notions of individuality and continuation as well as the correspondences and connections that indicate our shared human struggle to discover the meaning of, or assign meaning to, the phenomenon of death-a struggle that is renewed with each personal encounter. In this text, special emphasis will be given to the ways in which each tradition conceives the "self" or "soul." The religious understanding of the "person" who lives and the "person" who dies will form the central theme and primary organizing principle for the book, whether the discussion relates to shamanic concepts of many souls, the Biblical view of the person as a holistic body/breath entity, the Hindu view of the undying, immortal soul, or the Buddhist idea of "no-soul."
9781405153706 English 1405153709 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, One's first experience of death almost always results in questions. What happened? Why? What do we do now? This book begins with an exploration of the questions that death evokes and that various religious traditions purport to answer: What is death? Why is death? Who dies? Where from here? How do we get there? Following the introductory discussion, subsequent chapters take the reader through the main responses of several religious traditions. The book is organized so that each religion is treated as a discrete unit and will draw the attention of students to the differences and correspondences that appear across time and cultures. I aim to highlight the differences in conceptions of self and world that inform the way humans interpret notions of individuality and continuation as well as the correspondences and connections that indicate our shared human struggle to discover the meaning of, or assign meaning to, the phenomenon of death-a struggle that is renewed with each personal encounter. In this text, special emphasis will be given to the ways in which each tradition conceives the "self" or "soul." The religious understanding of the "person" who lives and the "person" who dies will form the central theme and primary organizing principle for the book, whether the discussion relates to shamanic concepts of many souls, the Biblical view of the person as a holistic body/breath entity, the Hindu view of the undying, immortal soul, or the Buddhist idea of "no-soul."