Patterns of Transcendence: Religion, Death, and Dying by Chi

ISBN: 0534117309

Author: Chidester, David

Condition: new

* Cross-cultural text examines social, religious, and cultural approaches to death and dying across Eastern and Western cultures and religious traditions..* Cross-cultural emphasis covering 4 patterns of transcendence: ancestral, experiential, cultural, and mythic.

• Ancient myths | Jewish resurrection | Tibetan book of the dead | Zen, bushido, Confucius, Islam | Buddhist rebirth