1st Edition

Death and Religion: The Basics

By Candi Cann Copyright 2023
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

Death and Religion: The Basics provides a thorough and accessible introduction to dying, death, grief, and conceptions of the afterlife in world religions. It leads readers through considerations of how we understand meanings of death and after-death, and the theories and practices attached to these states of being, with recourse to various religious worldviews: Judaism, Islam,... Read more

Preface: An Introduction to the Topic and Methodology

1. The Good Death

2. The Process of Dying and the Definition of Death

3. Disposal

4. Grief, Bereavement, and Mourning

5. Mourning and Bereavement from a Religious Perspective

6. Afterlives and Afterdeaths: Remembrance and Ritual

7. Technological Afterlives

8. Conclusion

Glossary

Index

Biography

Candi K. Cann is an Associate Professor of Religion in the Honors College at Baylor University, USA. She chairs the Death, Dying, and Beyond committee for the American Academy of Religion, is a former Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University, and a Fulbright Scholar at Han Nam University in South Korea (2023). Check out her website for a full list of her many publications, talks and interviews: www.candikcann.com