An edition of The skull exchanged
(2001)
The skull exchanged
death and dying in traditional cultures, Hinduism and Christianity
by Thomas Mooren
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Christianity, Death, Hinduism, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of DeathShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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The skull exchanged: death and dying in traditional cultures, Hinduism and Christianity
2001, Media House
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8174950842 9788174950840
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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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