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Death, Burial, and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity

Book by Jon Davies; Routledge, 1999

Subjects:

Death--Religious Aspects--History Of Doctrines, Funeral Rites And Ceremonies, Ancient, Future Life--History Of Doctrines, Middle East--Religion, Rome--Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...world was the one drawn after death. The invisible chasm between...than the present. So was religion. As Robin Lane Fox puts it...existence in a world in which religion was of central importance...life. This is true of any religion worthy of the name, and certainly of the religions and cults of the Ancient Near...
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Death, Religion, and the Family in England, 1480-1750

Book by Ralph Houlbrooke; Clarendon Press, 1998

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Death--Social Aspects--England, England--Religious Life And Customs, England--Social Life And Customs, Funeral Rites And Ceremonies--England, Funeral Sermons--England--History, Wills--England--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Publication Data Houlbrooke, Ralph A. Ralph Anthony , 1944- Death, religion, and the family in England, 1480-1750 / Ralph Houlbrooke...1. Funeral rites and ceremonies--England. 2. Death--Social aspects--England. 3. Funeral sermons...
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Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Religion, Spirituality, and the Near-Death Experience

Book by Mark Fox; Routledge, 2002

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Near-Death Experiences--Religious Aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...1962- Through the valley of the shadow of death : religion, spirituality, and the near-death experience / Mark Fox. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Near-death experiences-Religious aspects. I. Title...
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The Sacred Art of Dying: How World Religions Understand Death

Book by Kenneth Paul Kramer; Paulist Press, 1988

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Death--Religious Aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Life . New York: Dover Publishing, 1954. DEATH AND RELIGION Aries, Philippe. The Hour of Our Death . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Bailey, Lloyd. Biblical Perspectives on Death . Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1979.
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The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change

Book by David E. Stannard; Oxford University Press, 1979

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Death, Puritans--New England

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...of a Sociological Theory of Religion Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday...contemporary relationship between death and religion, see Irving E. Alexander...Adlerstein, "Death and Religion," in Feifel, Meaning of...Life After Death in the Major Religions New York: Scribners, 1967...

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Journal Articles on: death and religion

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"Are You Afraid to Die?" Religion and Death Attitudes in an Adolescent Sample

Journal article by Jessie Dezutter, Koen Luyckx, Dirk Hutsebaut; Journal of Psychology and Theology, Vol. 37, 2009

Subjects:

Fear of death--Research, Religion--Research, Religious beliefs--Research

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...Are You Afraid to Die?" Religion and Death Attitudes in an Adolescent...of the relationship between religion and death attitudes. First...existential topics. Moreover, religion is often seen as a way of...understandable that the great religions make it a central part of...
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Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning

Journal article by James A. Nash; Theological Studies, Vol. 67, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Religion and the Death Penalty: a call for Reckoning (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning. by James A. Nash RELIGION AND THE DEATH PENALTY: A CALL FOR RECKONING. Edited...the primary focus of Religion and the Death Penalty. Not surprisingly, both proponents...
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A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow

Journal article by Bill J. Leonard; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 72, 2006

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A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. by Bill J. Leonard A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. By David L. Chappell. (Chapel Hill and...
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A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow

Journal article by Donald Cunnigen; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 90, 2005

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A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. by Donald Cunnigen David L. Chappell, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina...
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Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England

Journal article by Roy Porter; Medical History, Vol. 42, 1998

Collections: History, Entire Library

Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-cycle in Tudor and...David Cressy, Birth, marriage, and death: ritual, religion, and the life...baptism, betrothal and marriage, death and burial also served as focal points...

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Magazine Articles on: death and religion

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That Exemplary Sociologist of Religion, David Martin, Is Mainly Puzzled by John Gray's New Book, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia

Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, April 2008

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Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

That Exemplary Sociologist of Religion, David Martin, Is Mainly Puzzled...Book, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia. by Richard John Neuhaus...Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia. Gray is notorious...
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Death in Naples

Magazine article by Michael A. Ledeen; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, August 2009

Subjects:

Death--Analysis, Dream analysis, Dreams--Analysis, Fortune--Analysis, Naples, Italy--Social aspects, Religion--Analysis, Religious beliefs--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...always the sort of religion approved by popes...culture revolves around death, because death has...state. Furthermore, religion was alive and well...faithful with life and death, sin and redemption...but Neapolitan religion has enabled its believers...vision of life and death permits them a unique...
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Perhaps You Can Put Up with One More Word on a Subject That Has Been Beaten to Death

Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, March 2008

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Atheism--Analysis, Atheists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Religion--Analysis, Religious beliefs--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Subject That Has Been Beaten to Death. by Richard John Neuhaus Perhaps...subject that has been beaten to death. The headline in Religion Watch reads: "Whats New About...confidently predicting the demise of religion and the triumph of what was frankly...
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Religion, Death, and the Law

Magazine article by William Harwood; Free Inquiry, Vol. 23, Summer 2003

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Freedom of religion--Laws, regulations, etc., Parent and child (Law)--Religious aspects, Right to refuse treatment--Laws, regulations, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Religion, death, and the law. by William...by pleading "freedom of religion." Currently thirty-nine...In a study of 172 child deaths where medical treatment was...beliefs not held by other religions. Why? The First Amendment...respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free...
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The Much Exaggerated Death of Europe

Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May 2007

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Authors--Works, Books--Criticism and interpretation, Europe--Social aspects, Religions--Analysis, Writers--Works

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...neglected lost sheep at home.... Death and resurrection are not just...foreigners of a radically different religion and culture. Blacks had been...not Europe. To speak of the death of Europe is not to suggest...That is what is meant by the death of Europe. At a recent dinner...

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Newspaper Articles on: death and religion

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Faiths Join to Mourn Astronauts' Deaths; Diverse Religions Offer Prayers to Crew

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 3, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Faiths join to mourn astronauts deaths; Diverse religions offer prayers to crew Byline: Arlo Wagner, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Parishioners at the St. Dunstans Episcopal Church were among...
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Scots Backpacker 'Knifed to Death in Row over Religion'; DRINK-FUELLED ARGUMENT BROUGHT COUPLE'S DREAM TRIP TO A TRAGIC END

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 1, 2006

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Murder

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Scots Backpacker Knifed to Death in Row over Religion; DRINK-FUELLED ARGUMENT BROUGHT...SCOTTISH backpacker who was stabbed to death in front of his girlfriend is thought...to her rescue, he was stabbed to death. It brought a shattering end to...
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Stoned to Death for Love; with Biblical Barbarity, a Beautiful Teenage Girl Is Battered to Death by a Baying Mob of Men. Her Crime? Daring to Fall in Love with an Iraqi Boy from the 'Wrong' Religion

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 17, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Iraqi Boy from the Wrong Religion. Byline: NATALIE CLARKE...family practised the Yezidi religion. The Sunnis and Yezidis...not the strictures of a religion which will not brook dissent...Islamic teachings with Persian religions - despise the Sunnis; the...torn from her by her violent death. The women are pledged to...which lead to such senseless deaths - and the fact that the people...
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Sorry, Tony, but If We Are Nutters, Then What Are You? in His Prayers: But in Denying Your Religion Is There Not More to Be Lost Than Gained?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 26, 2007

Subjects:

Religions--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...chore. The end of the wars of religion and the collapse of the Berlin...that thedeath of divisive religion corresponds to a rise in humanism...from the fact that organised religions havedisillusioned swathes...hisDialogues Concerning Natural Religion until after his death, fearing the wrathof the...
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Whitby: Riot Highlighted Importance of Religion

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 6, 2011

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Religion--Religious aspects, Riots--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Highlighted Importance of Religion. Riots in Birmingham and...city or a city of any one religion. He highlighted the importance of religion and religious leaders in keeping the peace following the death of three young men during...faith." He highlighted the deaths during the riots of Shazad...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: death and religion

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Hero , in Greek Religion

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

HERO , in Greek religion in Greek religion, famous person, who after his death, was worshiped as quasi-divine. The heroes might be actual great men and women, real or imaginary ancestors, or "faded" gods and goddesses (i.e., ancient...
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Egyptian Religion

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Development of a National Religion At the end of the predynastic...state was created, a national religion apparently grew out of the...primitive tribal and local religions, but still there were great...that the history of Egyptian religion was a sort of war of the gods...Egyptians; after Ikhnatons death, polytheism was restored...
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Religion

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...In a third class of religion usually heavily interlaced...the Hindu goddess of death and destruction Kali...called the "higher religions." Theologians and philosophers of religion agree that these religions embody a principle of...
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Greek Religion

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

GREEK RELIGION religious beliefs and practices...are lost in time, Greek religion is thought to date from about...Ares from Thrace. Homeric Religion Just before the violent Doric...heroic arete, or virtue. Death was a necessary evil; the...
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Middle Eastern Religions

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...functions in Middle Eastern religion that indirectly contributed...known myth, symbolizing the death and rebirth of vegetation...resurrection theme common to later religions. Perhaps the most famous...Babylonian and Assyrian Religion (1953, repr. 1963); I. Mendelsohn, ed., Religions of the Ancient Near East...

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