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Berkson, Mark, author, speaker.

Death, dying, and the afterlife : lessons from world cultures / Dr. Mark Berkson.

[PDF workbook version].

[Chantilly, Va.] : Teaching Company, [2016]

Prince Frederick, MD : [Distributed by] Recorded Books

©2016

12 audio discs : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

digital optical

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Explore how great faiths, philosophies, and cultures all over the world perceive death -- and existence -- in these life-affirming lectures.

Great courses. Religion. Comparative & world religion

Great courses (Compact disc)

Death -- Comparative studies.

Future life -- Comparative studies.

Audiobooks.

Teaching Company, publisher.

Recorded Books, LLC, publisher.

The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures.

Compact discs.

Accompanying PDF contains course workbook in CD-ROM format.

Course no. 6822.

Lecturer: Dr. Mark Berkson, Hamline University.

PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.

Death's place in our lives -- Defining death -- Death, illusion, and meaning -- Is it rational to fear death -- Understanding and coping with grief -- Death rituals and the corpse -- American death rituals -- Approaches to dying well -- Judaism on death and the afterlife -- Death and hope in Christianity -- Islam on returning to God -- Death, rebirth, and liberation in Hinduism -- Buddhism on impermanence and mindfulness -- The process of dying in Tibetan Buddhism -- Confucian remembrance, Daoist forgetting -- Death and syncretism in China -- Suicide examined -- The choice of euthanasia -- Killing in war and the pacifist challenge -- Considering capital punishment -- Killing non-human animals -- Near-death experiences -- The pursuit of immortality -- The value of death.

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