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Sumegi, Angela

Understanding Death: An Introduction to Ideas of Self and the Afterlife in World Religions

Sumegi, Angela - Understanding Death: An Introduction to Ideas of Self and the Afterlife in World Religions, ebook

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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

Keywords: ritual, transformation, soul, afterlife, world religions, Comparative & World Religions, Sociology of Religion, Comparative & World Religions, Sociology of Religion

Author(s)
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2014
Language
en
Edition
1
Page amount
280 pages
Category
Society
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781118323120
Printed ISBN
9781405153713

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