Death and Afterlife

Death and Afterlife

Author: Hiroshi Obayashi

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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Examines the subject of death and immortality in Africa, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece. Also from the point of view of the Old Testament, New Testament, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Tibetan Trantric and Chinese religions.


Life After Death

Life After Death

Author: Farnaz Masumian

Publisher: Oneworld Publications Limited

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 9781851680740

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This volume looks in detail at the life-after-death doctrines of seven world religions and asks many questions such as: are there important parallels between the many accounts of near-death experiences, and what happens to us when we actually die?; is there a part of us that conquers death?; If so, will that entity have a personal or universal encounter with it's creator at some point? The author draws out many corresponding features in reported near-death experiences, and demonstrates the unity of all religions in their approach to death and the afterlife.


Life After Death in World Religions

Life After Death in World Religions

Author: Harold G. Coward

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13:

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Experts from six traditions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Chinese religions discuss rituals, practices, and emotions as they relate to death and the hope of life that follows death.


Understanding Death

Understanding Death

Author: Angela Sumegi

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-06-21

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1118323122

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A comprehensive survey of how religions understand death, dying, and the afterlife, drawing on examples from Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and Shamanic perspectives. Considers shared and differing views of death across the world's major religions, including on the nature of death itself, the reasons for it, the identity of those who die, religious rituals, and on how the living should respond to death Places emphasis on the varying concepts of the 'self' or soul Uses a thematic structure to facilitate a broader comparative understanding Written in an accessible style to appeal to an undergraduate audience, it fills major gap in current textbook literature


How Different Religions View Death & Afterlife

How Different Religions View Death & Afterlife

Author: Christopher Jay Johnson

Publisher: Charles Press Pubs(PA)

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780914783855

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This new second edition presents a clear, concise and comparative overview of the teachings and the death beliefs of the largest and fastest-growing religions in North America. Unlike many books on the subject of religious beliefs, the discourse here is refreshingly objective and nonproselytizing. Furthermore, each chapter is written by a different expert or scholar who is internationally recognized as an authority on a particular faith. - Back cover.


Beyond the Threshold

Beyond the Threshold

Author: Christopher M. Moreman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2008-09-18

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0742565521

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Beyond the Threshold is the first book to seriously consider the interplay between traditional world religions and metaphysical experiences in exploring the timeless question of what happens when we die. Christopher M. Moreman examines and compares the beliefs and practices of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, as well as psychic phenomena such as mediums and near-death experiences. While ultimately the afterlife remains unknowable, Moreman's unique, in-depth exploration of both beliefs and experiences can help readers reach their own understanding of the afterlife and how to live.


Ultimate Journey

Ultimate Journey

Author: Steven Rosen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2008-10-30

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0313356092

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Like taxes, death is inevitable. Everyone experiences it sooner or later. This book offers perspectives on death and dying from all major religions, written by experts in each of those religions. Focusing on the major world traditions, it offers important information about what death and dying means to those practicing these faiths. The second part of the book adds a necessary and truly unique perspective - a personal look at how people actually die in the various world religions, as told by a hospital chaplain, with anecdotes and experiences that bring the death process to life, so to speak. Each chapter engages the theology of each religion, giving quotes from the literature of their respective scriptural traditions, to explain the process of dying, death, and the afterlife. In doing so, each author draws on the history of his respective tradition and looks at real-life figures, exemplars of the tradition, showing how practitioners view death and hope to one day engage the death process themselves.


The Sacred Art of Dying

The Sacred Art of Dying

Author: Kenneth Kramer

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780809129423

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Examines how each of the major religions looks at death by including stories, teachings, and rituals that present a comparative religious meaning of death and afterlife. Written in textbook style with journal exercises at the end of each chapter. +