Death And Religion in a Changing World

by Garces-Foley,Kathleen

• ISBN13: 9780765612229
• ISBN10: 0765612224
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-10-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction
Kathleen Garces-Foley	ix
I. Religious Approaches to Death
1. The Politics of Death and Burial in Native California
Dennis E Kelley	3	(20)
2. Contemporary Hindu Approaches to Death: Living With the Dead
Mark Elmore	23	(22)
3. Judaism and Death: Finding Meaning in Ritual
Rebecca Golbert	45	(24)
4. Buddhisms and Death
Robert E. Goss and Dennis Klass	69	(24)
5. Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox Approaches to Death
Lizette Larson-Miller	93	(29)
6. Protestant Approaches to Death: Overcoming Death's Sting
Glenn Lucke and Richard B. Gilbert with Ronald K. Barrett	122	(25)
7. Muslim Ways of Death: Between the Prescribed and the Performed
Juan Eduardo Campo	147	(31)
8. Sikhism and Death
Kristina Myrvold	178	(29)
II. Death in Contemporary Societies
9. Contemporary American Funerals: Personalizing Tradition
Kathleen Garces-Foley and Justin S. Holcomb	207	(21)
10. Forms of Disposal
Douglas J. Davies	228	(18)
11. Spontaneous Shrines and Public Memorialization
Sylvia Grider	246	(19)
12. Disaster, Modernity, and the Media
Tony Walter	265	(18)
13. Grief, Religion, and Spirituality
Dennis Klass	283
Epilogue
Evan Berry	305	(8)
About the Contributors	313	(4)
Index	317