| The Meanings of Death Canto Edition Contributor(s): Bowker, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521447739 ISBN-13: 9780521447737 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1993 Annotation: John Bowker offers a major contribution to debates about the value of death and its place in both Western and Eastern religions. By indicating how value can be maintained at the limit of life, without a search for illusory compensation in an afterlife, Bowker enriches our experience and understanding of the "final question". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Comparative Religion - Social Science |
| Dewey: 291.23 |
| LCCN: 93199694 |
| Series: Canto Original |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.16" W x 7.94" (0.75 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In The Meanings of Death, John Bowker offers a major contribution to debates about the value of death and its place in both Western and Eastern religions. Examining the themes of friendship and sacrifice in the world's major religions, Bowker argues that there are points of vital contact with secular understandings of death, and that religious and secular attitudes can support and reinforce one another. An affirmative recovery of the value of death is important in our response to bereavement, and in the treatment of the terminally ill. By indicating how value can be maintained at the limit of life, without a search for illusory compensation in an afterlife beyond it, Bowker enriches our experience and understanding of the 'final question' in a way which is always sensitive and often moving. |