Religion, death, and dying /
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| Imprint: | Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger Publishers, c2010. |
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| Description: | 3 v. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Praeger perspectives Praeger perspectives. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7996715 |
Table of Contents:
- v. 1. Perspectives on dying and death. Role of the professional hospital chaplain / Florence Gelo
- Knowledge-seeking wisdom: health care professionals, religion, and end-of-life care / Aaron Klink
- Hospice and spiritual needs of the dying / Megory Anderson
- Paradox of medical advances and inequalities in health care: the African-American experience / Richard Payne
- Jewish perspectives on death and dying / Elliot N. Dorff
- Christian perspectives on death and dying / Margaret R. McLean
- North American Muslim perspectives on death and dying / Amir Hussain
- Death is not final: attitudes toward dying, death, and medicalization among American Hindus / Lola Williamson
- Death and Buddhist perspectives in America / Eve Mullen
- Eternal life, death, and dying in Jainism / Christopher Key Chapple
- Eastern Band of Cherokee: cultural revitalization and demedicalized death / Lisa Lefler and Ulrike Wiethaus
- v. 2. Special issues. Death of a child / Dennis Klass
- Hope deferred: theological reflections on infertility, miscarriage, and stillbirth / Mary Stimming
- Alzheimer's disease: the folk morality of caregiving / Helen K. Black
- Modern plague? AIDS and religion in American society / Dugan McGinley
- Suicide and American religion: tradition and transformation / Mary Stimming
- Homicide and American religion / Jon Pahl
- Religion and the death penalty in America / Charles Brian McAdams
- Warfare deaths: ethical and religious understanding in the American context / Lloyd Steffen
- Evidence for life after death: an overview of the debate / Christopher Moreman
- v. 3. Bereavement and death rituals. Funeral and mourning rituals in America: historical and cultural overview / Kathleen Garces-Foley
- Grief and the rituals surrounding death: a Jewish approach / Rebecca Alpert
- Rituals for dying, death, and bereavement among Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians / Regina A. Boisclair
- Protestantism and death rituals / Glenn H. Asquith Jr.
- African and African-American traditions in America / Tonya D. Armstrong
- When death occurs: Islamic rituals and practices in the United States / Gisela Webb
- Grieving tradition in a new land: Hindu death and dying rituals in America / Kyoko Murata
- Great matter of life and death: death and dying practices in American Buddhism / Jeff Wilson
- DineĢ (Navajo) narratives of death and bereavement / Lawrence Shorty and Ulrike Wiethaus
- Mourning in America: civic ritual, public remembrance, and saving grace / Stephen Johnson.