Patterns of Transcendence: Religion, Death, and Dying - Softcover

Chidester, David

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9780534117306: Patterns of Transcendence: Religion, Death, and Dying

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* Cross-cultural text examines social, religious, and cultural approaches to death and dying across Eastern and Western cultures and religious traditions..* Cross-cultural emphasis covering 4 patterns of transcendence: ancestral, experiential, cultural, and mythic.

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1. Religion, Death, and Dying. 2. Indigenous Transcendence. 3. Asian Transcendence. 4. The Tibetan Book of the Dead. 5. Abrahamic Transcendence. 6. The Divine Comedy. 7. Living Transcendence. Index.

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ISBN 10:  0534506070 ISBN 13:  9780534506070
Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2001
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