TY - BOOK AU - Reynolds,Frank AU - Waugh,Earle H. ED - American Academy of Religion. TI - Religious encounters with death: insights from the history and anthropology of religions SN - 0271012293 AV - BL504.R382.R455 1977 KW - Death KW - Mort KW - Religions KW - Doctrines KW - Death Anthropological perspectives N1 - 2; 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 ER -