The central focus of this work is the significance that people ascribe to death, both within and beyond their religious beliefs, and why this should be so. The book also includes certain aspects of death, such as death-bed visions, near-death experiences and the sense of presence of the deceased.
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Death and Bereavement: The Psychological, Religious and Cultural Interfaces by Dewi Rees
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Table of Contents
What is death?; Western attitudes to death; reincarnation and rebirth; the cult of the ancestors; African and Afro-Caribbean beliefs and customs; Jewish and Muslim funeral and mourning customs; the funeral rites of Christians; new religions and new sects; the reburial issue; Freud, mourning and death; Jung and self-realization; Shakespeare, death and grief; dying - the last months; caring for the dying; bereavement - the basics; bereavement - medical and social issues; the death of a child; a child's response to death; suicide; euthanasia and assisted suicide; the death of a pet; the bereaved and the living-dead.
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GOR001948569
9781861560124
1861560125
Death and Bereavement: The Psychological, Religious and Cultural Interfaces by Dewi Rees
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