Death and bereavement across cultures / edited by Colin Murray Parkes, Pittu Laungani, and Bill Young
- Bib ID:
- 2956500
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997
- vi, 261 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0415131367 (hardback)
- 0415131375 (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction / Colin Murray Parkes, Pittu Laungani and Bill Young
- 2. Culture and religion / Colin Murray Parkes, Pittu Laungani and Bill Young
- 3. Grief in small-scale societies / Paul C. Rosenblatt
- 4. Death in a Hindu family / Pittu Laungani
- 5. A death on the roof of the world: The perspective of Tibetan Buddhism / Uwe P. Gielen
- 6. Jewish views and customs on death / Ellen Levine
- 7. Christianity / Harold Ter Blanche and Colin Murray Parkes
- 8. The many facets of Islam: Death, dying and disposal between orthodox rule and historical convention /Gerdien Jonker
- 9. Secularization / Tony Walter
- 10. Childhood, death and bereavement across cultures /Bill Young and Danai Papadatou
- 11. Help for the dying and bereaved / Colin Murray Parkes
- 12. Conclusions I: Implications for practice and policy /Pittu Laungani
- 13. Conclusions II: Attachments and losses in cross-cultural perspective / Colin Murray Parkes.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [244]-251.
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