Ultimate Journey: Death and Dying in the World's Major Religions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313356084 ISBN 13: 9780313356087

Publisher: Praeger, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

This volume offers insight into views from the world's major faith traditions on death and dying.

About the Author:

Steven J. Rosen is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Vaishnava Studies and Associate Editor of Back to Godhead, the magazine of the Hare Krishna movement. His recent books include Holy Cow: The Hare Krishna Contribution to Vegetarianism and Animal Rights, Essential Hinduism (Greenwood, 2006), and Krishna's Song: A New look at the Bhagavad Gita (Praeger, 2007).

About this edition

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0313356084
• ISBN 13: 9780313356087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Rosen Steven