Religion, Death, and Dying: Perspectives on Dying and Death (1)

Bregman, Lucy

Religion & Spirituality

Praeger Pub Text

What do various spiritual and ethical belief systems have to say about modern medicine's approach to the end of life? Do all major religions characterize the afterlife in similar ways? How do funeral rites and rituals vary across different faiths? Now there is one resource that gathers leading scholars to address these questions and more about the many religious, ethical, and spiritual aspects of death, dying, and bereavement in America.Religion, Death, and Dying compares and contrasts the ways different faiths and ethical schools contemplate the end of life. The work is organized into three thematic volumes: first, an examination of the contemporary medicalized death from the perspective of different religious traditions and the professions involved; second, an exploration of complex, often controversial issues, including the death of children, AIDS, capital punishment, and war; and finally, a survey of the funeral and bereavement rituals that have evolved under various religions.

Religion, Death, and Dying: Special Issues (2)

Religion, Death, and Dying: Bereavement and Death Rituals (3)

Lucy Bregman guides the reader through the wealth of recent literature on death and dying, giving special attention to the autobiographical narratives of terminally ill people and to books offering counsel to the dying, their caregivers, and the bereaved. She argues that this literature should supplement, not supplant, Christian understandings of death.

Beyond Silence and Denial: Death and Dying Reconsidered

Christian Books & Bibles

Westminster/John Knox Press

Death in the Midst of Life: Perspectives on Death from Christianity and Depth Psychology (Christian Explorations in Psychology)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Baker Book House Company

The death awareness movement provides a new language for speaking about death and dying by stressing death, dying and bereavement as meaningful human experiences beyond their medical context. This movement appears secular and detached from religion, although its advocates embrace spirituality. However, is this separation from religion realistic? Death and Dying, Spirituality and Religions refutes that view and undermines the popular opposition between spirituality and religion. The death awareness movement is deeply indebted to popular Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism, as well as tribal religions for their ideas and images. Urging a thoughtful theological response, this book illustrates how such diverse religious legacies contribute to contemporary views of death and dying.

Death and Dying, Spirituality and Religions: A Study of the Death Awareness Movement (American University Studies)

History

Americas

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Preaching Death: The Transformation of Christian Funeral Sermons

Baylor University Press

Bregman and Thiermann look at more than 60 accounts of death and dying--from diaries and essays and a few select novels--to derive this uniquely American vision of mortality and the afterlife.

First Person Mortal

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Paragon_House

Selections from diaries, essays, and novels offer an American perspective on death and the afterlife

Christians traditionally have had something substantive and important to say about death and afterlife. Yet the language and imagery used in sermons about life and death have given way to language designed to comfort and celebrate.
In Preaching Death, Lucy Bregman tracks the changes in Protestant American funerals over the last one hundred years. Early-twentieth-century "natural immortality" doctrinal funeral sermons transitioned to an era of "silence and denial," eventually becoming expressive, biographical tributes to the deceased. The contemporary death awareness movement, with the "death as a natural event" perspective, has widely impacted American culture, affecting health care, education, and psychotherapy and creating new professions such as hospice nurse and grief counselor. Bregman questions whether this transition―which occurred unobserved and without conflict―was inevitable and what alternative paths could have been chosen. In tracing this unique story, she reveals how Americans' comprehension of death shifted in the last century―and why we must find ways to move beyond it.

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