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Death and Dying: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion

Death and Dying: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion

Knepper, Timothy D.
Bregman, Lucy
Gottschalk, Mary

Paperback

Series: Comparative Philosophy of Religion, Book 2

PhilosophyComparative Religion

ISBN10: 3030193020
ISBN13: 9783030193027
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 16 2020
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The medicalization of death is a challenge for all the world's religious and cultural traditions. Death's meaning has been reduced to a diagnosis, a problem, rather than a mystery for humans to ponder. How have religious traditions responded? What resources do they bring to a discussion of death's contemporary dilemmas? This book offers a range of creative and contextual responses from a variety of religious and cultural traditions. It features 14 essays from scholars of different religious and philosophical traditions, who spoke as part of a recent lecture and dialogue series of Drake University's The Comparison Project. The scholars represent ethnologists, medical ethicists, historians, philosophers, and theologians--all facing up to questions of truth and value in the light of the urgent need to move past a strictly medicalized vision.

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