Religion, Death, and Dying - 3 Vol. Set

includes index and biblioraphy

Vol. 1
1. Contemporary Medicalized Death .....1
The role of the Professional Hospital Chaplain ......3
Knowledge Seekingh wisdom : Health care Professionals, Religion, and end-of-life Care ....27
Hospice and Spiritual Needs of the Dying .....47
Paradox of Medical Advances and Inequalities in health care : The african - American Experience .....73
2. Religious traditions resources and responses ...89
Jewish perspectives on Death and Dying ................91
Christian Perspectives on Death and Dying .......115
North American Muslim Perspecites on death and Dying ...........135
Death is not final : Attitudes towards dying, death, and Medicalization among American Hindus.......149
Death and buddhist perspectives in America ......169
Eternal Life, Death, and Dying in Jainism ......189
The eastern band of Cherokee: Cultural Revitalization and Demedicalized Death ........213
Vol. 2
The Death of a Child ...........1
Hope Deferred: Theological Reflections on Infertility, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth........29
Alzheimer`s Desease: The folk morality of Caregiving .....51
Modern PLague? AIDS and Religion in American Society ...71
Suicide and American Religion : Tradition and Transformation ......97
Homicide and American Religion ........135
Religion and the Death Penalty in America ..159
Ethical and Religious understanding in the American Context .....183
The Evidence for life after Death: An Overview of the Debate .......209
Vol. 3
Funeral and Mourning rituals in America: Historical and Cultural overview ..........1
Grief and the Rituals Surrounding Death : A jewish Approach ..........25
The Rituals for Dying, Death, and Bereavement among Roman catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians ...........41
Protestantism and Death Rituals ..........63
African and African - American Traditions in America ...........83
When death occurs : Islamic Rituals and Practices in the United States ...........111
Grieving Tradition in a new Land :Hindu death and Dying Rituals in America ..........127
The Great matter of life and Death : Death and Dying practices in American Buddhism .......149
Narratives of Death and Bereavement ......171
Mourning in America : Civic Ritual, Public Rememberence, and Saving Grace ......191

Vol. 1
1. Contemporary Medicalized Death .....1
The role of the Professional Hospital Chaplain ....