Death and Bereavement

The Psychological, Religious and Cultural Interfaces

Dewi Rees, etc. (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

1996 | 2nd edition
Whurr Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
9781861560124 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.11.1996
• Zusatzinfo: index
• Verlagsort: Chichester
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 153 x 234 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• ISBN-13: 9781861560124 / 9781861560124
• Zustand: Neuware