An edition of The skull exchanged (2001)

The skull exchanged

death and dying in traditional cultures, Hinduism and Christianity

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Thomas Mooren, Thomas Mooren
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An edition of The skull exchanged (2001)

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Christianity, Death, Hinduism, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Death

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE
The Skull and the Name: Death and Dying in
Traditional Cultures
1. Death and the Animal
2. The bad Death
3. The 'mirroring of death: the Kwaio Ritual
4. Other Anti-death Strategies; Death and pollution;
Death and Initiation
5. Death: Continuity and Discontinuity
6. The Climb to Eternity: the Fataleka
Way of Dying
PART TWO
Freedom beyond Skull and Name: Hinduism and the
Symbiosis of Life and Death
1. Death and the Way of Ritual
2. Death as Borderline and Expression of Dharma:
PrajIpati and Brahma
3. The Soul and Its Migrations: the Contribution ot
Indian Tribal Religions to Classical Hinduism
4. The Karmic Fact
5. Death as Liberator; Living the Death state
6. The Moralization of Death
7. Death and Dying in Modern Hindu Thought
PART THREE
Golgotha, the Place of the Skull: Death and Dying in
Christianity
1. The Weighing of the Heart
2. Yahveh's Holiness
3. From Martyrdom to Purgatory
4. The Secularization of Death
5. The Puritan Wayof Death and its End
6. Conclusion: The Law of Exchange;
Death and Dying Today
Epilogue
Bibliography.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [318]-334).

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Delhi
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Studies in religious anthropology and the theology of death

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Library of Congress
BL1214.72 .M66 2001

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334 p. :
Number of pages
334

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OL4004713M
ISBN 10
8174950842
LCCN
2001358970
OCLC/WorldCat
48858237
Goodreads
3118302

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