Religious encounters with death : insights from the history and anthropology of religions / edited by Frank E. Reynolds and Earle H. Waugh.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Comparative studies -- Mythologies of death : an introduction / Mircea Eliade -- Death and the dead in the pilgrimage process / Victor Turner -- Mesoamerica and Africa -- The black man in the cave in Chapultepec : an Aztec variant on the gatekeeper motif / Franke J. Neumann -- Death, kingship, and royal ancestors in Buganda / Benjamin Ray -- Indian traditions -- myth and meditation -- Death as a necessity and a gift in Hindu mythology / J. Bruce Long -- "The death that conquers death" : dying to the world in Medieval Hinduism / David R. Kinsley -- Indian traditions -- ritual practice -- Sapindikarana : the Hindu rite of entry into heaven / David M. Knipe -- Parsi Zoroastrian myth and ritual : some problems of their relevance for death and dying / Cyrus R. Pangborn -- A Japanese Buddhist perspective -- Practicing dying : the Samurai-Zen death techniques of Suzuki Shosan / Winston L. King -- Biblical and Judaic traditions -- Human mortality as a problem in Ancient Israel / Wolfram Herrmann -- The Holocaust and the Kiddush Hashem in Hassidic thought / Pesach Schindler -- Islamic traditions -- Death and dying in the Qur'an / Alford T. Welch -- Muharram rites : community death and rebirth / Earle H. Waugh -- North American and Christian traditions -- In search of paradigms : death and destiny in seventeenth-century North America / Glen W. Davidson -- The death of Father Abraham : the assassination of Lincoln and its effect on frontier mythology / Donald Capps.