Religious encounters with death : insights from the history and anthropology of religions /
edited by Frank E. Reynolds and Earle H. Waugh.
- xii, 247 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographies and index.
Mythologies of death : an introduction / Death and the dead in the pilgrimage process / The black man in the cave in Chapultepec : an Aztec variant on the gatekeeper motif / Death, kingship, and royal ancestors in Buganda / myth and meditation -- Death as a necessity and a gift in Hindu mythology / "The death that conquers death" : dying to the world in Medieval Hinduism / ritual practice -- Sapindikarana : the Hindu rite of entry into heaven / Parsi Zoroastrian myth and ritual : some problems of their relevance for death and dying / Practicing dying : the Samurai-Zen death techniques of Suzuki Shosan / Human mortality as a problem in Ancient Israel / The Holocaust and the Kiddush Hashem in Hassidic thought / Death and dying in the Qur'an / Muharram rites : community death and rebirth / In search of paradigms : death and destiny in seventeenth-century North America / The death of Father Abraham : the assassination of Lincoln and its effect on frontier mythology / Mircea Eliade -- Victor Turner -- Franke J. Neumann -- Benjamin Ray -- J. Bruce Long -- David R. Kinsley -- David M. Knipe -- Cyrus R. Pangborn -- Winston L. King -- Wolfram Herrmann -- Pesach Schindler -- Alford T. Welch -- Earle H. Waugh -- Glen W. Davidson -- Donald Capps. Comparative studies -- Mesoamerica and Africa -- Indian traditions -- Indian traditions -- A Japanese Buddhist perspective -- Biblical and Judaic traditions -- Islamic traditions -- North American and Christian traditions --
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