
Death and Dying
The medicalization of death is a challenge for all the world''s religious and cultural traditions. Death''s meaning has been reduced to a diagnosis, a problem, rather than a mystery for humans to ponder. How have religious traditions responded? What resources do they bring to a discussion of death''s contemporary dilemmas? This book offers a range of creative and contextual responses from a variet...
The medicalization of death is a challenge for all the world''s religious and cultural traditions. Death''s meaning has been reduced to a diagnosis, a problem, rather than a mystery for humans to ponder. How have religious traditions responded? What resources do they bring to a discussion of death''s contemporary dilemmas? This book offers a range of creative and contextual responses from a variet...