Religion, death, and dying / edited by Lucy Bregman.

Other author Bregman, Lucy.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoSanta Barbara, Calif. : Praeger Publishers,
Description3 v. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Death--Religious aspects.
Bereavement--Religious aspects.
Death.
United States--Religion.

SeriesPraeger perspectives
Praeger perspectives. ^A587662
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 -- Diné (Navajo) narratives of death and bereavement / Lawrence Shorty and Ulrike Wiethaus -- Mourning in America: civic ritual, public remembrance, and saving grace / Stephen Johnson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009028725
ISBN9780313351730 (set : hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780313351754 (vol. 1. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780313351778 (vol . 2 : alk. paper)
ISBN9780313351792 ( vol. 3 : alk. paper)
ISBN0313351732 (set : hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0313351759 (vol. 1. : alk. paper)
ISBN0313351775 (vol . 2 : alk. paper)
ISBN0313351791 ( vol. 3 : alk. paper)

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