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The Resource Religious encounters with death : insights from the history and anthropology of religions, edited by Frank E. Reynolds and Earle H. Waugh

Religious encounters with death : insights from the history and anthropology of religions, edited by Frank E. Reynolds and Earle H. Waugh

Work
Publication
Extent
xii, 247 pages
Note
Based on papers prepared for the annual convention of the American Academy of Religion held in Chicago, 1973
Contents
  • Death, kingship, and royal ancestors in Buganda
  • Benjamin Ray
  • Indian traditions -- myth and meditation
  • Death as a necessity and a gift in Hindu mythology
  • J. Bruce Long
  • "The death that conquers death" : dying to the world in Medieval Hinduism
  • David R. Kinsley
  • Indian traditions -- ritual practice
  • Sapiṇḍīkarana : the Hindu rite of entry into heaven
  • David M. Knipe
  • Comparative studies
  • Parsi Zoroastrian myth and ritual : some problems of their relevance for death and dying
  • Cyrus R. Pangborn
  • A Japanese Buddhist perspective
  • Practicing dying : the Samurai-Zen death techniques of Suzuki Shōsan
  • Winston L. King
  • Biblical and Judaic traditions
  • Human mortality as a problem in Ancient Israel
  • Wolfram Herrmann
  • The Holocaust and the Kiddush Hashem in Hassidic thought
  • Pesach Schindler
  • Mythologies of death : an introduction
  • Islamic traditions
  • Death and dying in the Qur'ān
  • Alford T. Welch
  • Muḥarram rites : community death and rebirth
  • Earle H. Waugh
  • North American and Christian traditions
  • In search of paradigms : death and destiny in seventeenth-century North America
  • Glen W. Davidson
  • The death of Father Abraham : the assassination of Lincoln and its effect on frontier mythology
  • Donald Capps
  • Mircea Eliade
  • Death and the dead in the pilgrimage process
  • Victor Turner
  • Mesoamerica and Africa
  • The black man in the cave in Chapultepec : an Aztec variant on the gatekeeper motif
  • Franke J. Neumann
Isbn
9780271012292
Instance
Label
Religious encounters with death : insights from the history and anthropology of religions
Title
Religious encounters with death
Title remainder
insights from the history and anthropology of religions
Statement of responsibility
edited by Frank E. Reynolds and Earle H. Waugh
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
291.2/3
Index
index present
LC call number
BL504
LC item number
.R44
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1930-
  • 1936-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Reynolds, Frank
  • Waugh, Earle H.
  • American Academy of Religion
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Death
  • Mort
  • Death
  • Geschichte
  • Religion
  • Tod
  • Mort
  • Geschichte
  • Religion
  • Tod
Label
Religious encounters with death : insights from the history and anthropology of religions, edited by Frank E. Reynolds and Earle H. Waugh
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Based on papers prepared for the annual convention of the American Academy of Religion held in Chicago, 1973
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Death, kingship, and royal ancestors in Buganda
  • Benjamin Ray
  • Indian traditions -- myth and meditation
  • Death as a necessity and a gift in Hindu mythology
  • J. Bruce Long
  • "The death that conquers death" : dying to the world in Medieval Hinduism
  • David R. Kinsley
  • Indian traditions -- ritual practice
  • Sapiṇḍīkarana : the Hindu rite of entry into heaven
  • David M. Knipe
  • Comparative studies
  • Parsi Zoroastrian myth and ritual : some problems of their relevance for death and dying
  • Cyrus R. Pangborn
  • A Japanese Buddhist perspective
  • Practicing dying : the Samurai-Zen death techniques of Suzuki Shōsan
  • Winston L. King
  • Biblical and Judaic traditions
  • Human mortality as a problem in Ancient Israel
  • Wolfram Herrmann
  • The Holocaust and the Kiddush Hashem in Hassidic thought
  • Pesach Schindler
  • Mythologies of death : an introduction
  • Islamic traditions
  • Death and dying in the Qur'ān
  • Alford T. Welch
  • Muḥarram rites : community death and rebirth
  • Earle H. Waugh
  • North American and Christian traditions
  • In search of paradigms : death and destiny in seventeenth-century North America
  • Glen W. Davidson
  • The death of Father Abraham : the assassination of Lincoln and its effect on frontier mythology
  • Donald Capps
  • Mircea Eliade
  • Death and the dead in the pilgrimage process
  • Victor Turner
  • Mesoamerica and Africa
  • The black man in the cave in Chapultepec : an Aztec variant on the gatekeeper motif
  • Franke J. Neumann
Control code
ocm02189348
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xii, 247 pages
Isbn
9780271012292
Lccn
76014981
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780271012292
  • (OCoLC)02189348
Label
Religious encounters with death : insights from the history and anthropology of religions, edited by Frank E. Reynolds and Earle H. Waugh
Publication
Note
Based on papers prepared for the annual convention of the American Academy of Religion held in Chicago, 1973
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Death, kingship, and royal ancestors in Buganda
  • Benjamin Ray
  • Indian traditions -- myth and meditation
  • Death as a necessity and a gift in Hindu mythology
  • J. Bruce Long
  • "The death that conquers death" : dying to the world in Medieval Hinduism
  • David R. Kinsley
  • Indian traditions -- ritual practice
  • Sapiṇḍīkarana : the Hindu rite of entry into heaven
  • David M. Knipe
  • Comparative studies
  • Parsi Zoroastrian myth and ritual : some problems of their relevance for death and dying
  • Cyrus R. Pangborn
  • A Japanese Buddhist perspective
  • Practicing dying : the Samurai-Zen death techniques of Suzuki Shōsan
  • Winston L. King
  • Biblical and Judaic traditions
  • Human mortality as a problem in Ancient Israel
  • Wolfram Herrmann
  • The Holocaust and the Kiddush Hashem in Hassidic thought
  • Pesach Schindler
  • Mythologies of death : an introduction
  • Islamic traditions
  • Death and dying in the Qur'ān
  • Alford T. Welch
  • Muḥarram rites : community death and rebirth
  • Earle H. Waugh
  • North American and Christian traditions
  • In search of paradigms : death and destiny in seventeenth-century North America
  • Glen W. Davidson
  • The death of Father Abraham : the assassination of Lincoln and its effect on frontier mythology
  • Donald Capps
  • Mircea Eliade
  • Death and the dead in the pilgrimage process
  • Victor Turner
  • Mesoamerica and Africa
  • The black man in the cave in Chapultepec : an Aztec variant on the gatekeeper motif
  • Franke J. Neumann
Control code
ocm02189348
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xii, 247 pages
Isbn
9780271012292
Lccn
76014981
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780271012292
  • (OCoLC)02189348

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