Death and Dying: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion

Chapter 1. Introduction: Death and Dying in Comparative Philosophical Perspective (Timothy D. Knepper).- Part 1. Death And Religion.- Chapter 2. Death in Ancient Chinese Thought: What Confucians and Daoists Can Teach Us about Living and Dying Well (Mark Berkson).- Chapter 3. Secular Death (Amy Hollywood).- Chapter 4. The Cult of Santa Muerte: Migration, Marginalization, and Medicalization (Eduardo González Velázquez).- Chapter 5. "To Die in Peace": Negotiating Advance Directives in a Navajo Context (Michelene Pesantubbee).Part 2. Medicalization and Religion.- Chapter 6. Christians Encounter Death: The Tradition's Ambivalent Legacies (Lucy Bregman).- Chapter 7. A Jain Ethic for the End of Life (Christopher Key Chapple).- Chapter 8. The Ritualization of Death and Dying: The Journey from the Living Living to the Living Dead in African Religions (Herbert Moyo).- Chapter 9. Death in Tibetan Buddhism (Alyson Prude).- Part 3: Bioethics and Religion.- Chapter 10. Jewish Perspectives on End-of-Life Decisions (Elliot N. Dorff).- Chapter 11. Buddhism and Brain Death: Classical Teachings and Contemporary Perspectives (Damien Keown).- Chapter 12. Ethical Engagement with the Medicalization of Death in the Catholic Tradition (Gerard Magill).- Chapter 13. Islamic Perspectives on Clinical Intervention Near the End of Life: We Can but Must We? (Aasim I. Padela).- Part 4: Comparative Conclusions.- Chapter 14. Comparative Conclusions (Lucy Bregman).