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Chargement... Death and Bereavement Across Culturespar Colin Murray Parkes
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. As a guide for hospice workers and end-of-life care providers, this book is sometimes woefully vague. But given the ambitious scope of what it seeks to accomplish--providing introductions to or overviews of cultural attitudes toward death and bereavement rituals across the world--this is perhaps a necessary flaw in the book. I grew up in a Christian household, for instance, and so found the chapter on Christianity disappointingly broad. I am currently a Buddhist, and I conversely found the chapter on Tibetan burial practices too narrowly focused. But the chapters on Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism were, for me, fascinating, and the chapter on secular Humanism, though at times too aggressively anti-religious for my tastes, was equally educational. I think the serious student of world cultures, world religions, and/or death and bereavement would be wise to find whole books on each subject, because these chapters just don't get the job done--but as an introduction to such studies, this book worked out pretty well, and would probably serve nicely as a handy refresher reference to keep on the shelf. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and although Western science has had a major impact on how people die, it has taught us little about the way to die or to grieve. Many whose work brings them into contact with the dying and the bereaved from Western and other cultures are at a loss to know how to offer appropriate and sensitive support. Death and Bereavement Across Cultures 2nd Edition is a handbook which meets the needs of doctors, nurses, social workers, hospital chaplains, counsellors and volunteers caring for patients with life-threatening illness and their families before and after bereavement. It is a practical guide explaining the religious and other differences commonly met with in multi-cultural societies when someone is dying or bereaved. In doing so readers may be surprised to find how much we can learn from other cultures about our own attitudes and assumptions about death. Written by international experts in the field the book: - Describes the rituals and beliefs of major world religions; - Explains their psychological and historical context; - Shows how customs are changed by contact with the West; - Considers the implications for the future The second edition includes new chapters that: explore how members of the health care professions perform roles formerly conducted by priests and shamans, can cross the cultural gaps between different cultures and religions; consider the relevance of attitudes and assumptions about death for our understanding of religious and nationalist extremism and its consequences; discuss the Buddhist, Islamic and Christian ways of death"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Describes the rituals and beliefs of major world religions;
Explains their psychological and historical context;
Shows how customs are changed by contact with the West;
Considers the implications for the future.