Death and Dying An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion /

Death and Dying An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion /

The medicalization of death is a challenge for all the world's religious and cultural traditions. Death's meaning has been reduced to a diagnosis, a problem, rather than a mystery for humans to ponder. How have religious traditions responded? What resources do they bring to a discussion of...

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Other Authors: Knepper, Timothy D. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bregman, Lucy (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gottschalk, Mary (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Comparative Philosophy of Religion, 2
Subjects:
Religion-Philosophy.
Religions.
Bioethics.
Philosophy of Religion.
Comparative Religion.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Death and Dying in Comparative Philosophical Perspective (Timothy D. Knepper)
  • Part 1. Death And Religion
  • Chapter 2. Death in Ancient Chinese Thought: What Confucians and Daoists Can Teach Us about Living and Dying Well (Mark Berkson)
  • Chapter 3. Secular Death (Amy Hollywood)
  • Chapter 4. The Cult of Santa Muerte: Migration, Marginalization, and Medicalization (Eduardo González Velázquez)
  • Chapter 5. "To Die in Peace": Negotiating Advance Directives in a Navajo Context (Michelene Pesantubbee).Part 2. Medicalization and Religion
  • Chapter 6. Christians Encounter Death: The Tradition's Ambivalent Legacies (Lucy Bregman)
  • Chapter 7. A Jain Ethic for the End of Life (Christopher Key Chapple)
  • Chapter 8. The Ritualization of Death and Dying: The Journey from the Living Living to the Living Dead in African Religions (Herbert Moyo)
  • Chapter 9. Death in Tibetan Buddhism (Alyson Prude)
  • Part 3: Bioethics and Religion
  • Chapter 10. Jewish Perspectives on End-of-Life Decisions (Elliot N. Dorff)
  • Chapter 11. Buddhism and Brain Death: Classical Teachings and Contemporary Perspectives (Damien Keown)
  • Chapter 12. Ethical Engagement with the Medicalization of Death in the Catholic Tradition (Gerard Magill)
  • Chapter 13. Islamic Perspectives on Clinical Intervention Near the End of Life: We Can but Must We? (Aasim I. Padela)
  • Part 4: Comparative Conclusions
  • Chapter 14. Comparative Conclusions (Lucy Bregman).

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