Overview
- Explores how the medicalization of dying affects tradition
- Analyzes diverse religious traditions in a cross-cultural inquiry
- Highlights creative and faithful responses of religious traditions
Part of the book series: Comparative Philosophy of Religion (COPR, volume 2)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bioethics and Religion
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Comparative Conclusions
Keywords
- Bioethics and Religion
- Clinical intervention near the End of Life
- Contemporary Challenges of Medicalization
- Death, Dying and Religion
- Medicalization and Legalization of Death
- Secular Death
- The Ritualization of Death and Dying
- Death in Navajo tribe
- Death in Tibetan Buddhism
- Medicalization of Death in the Catholic Tradition
- Islamic Perspectives on Death and Clinical Intervention
About this book
The medicalization of death is a challenge for all the world's religious and cultural traditions. Death's meaning has been reduced to a diagnosis, a problem, rather than a mystery for humans to ponder. How have religious traditions responded? What resources do they bring to a discussion of death's contemporary dilemmas? This book offers a range of creative and contextual responses from a variety of religious and cultural traditions. It features 14 essays from scholars of different religious and philosophical traditions, who spoke as part of a recent lecture and dialogue series of Drake University’s The Comparison Project. The scholars represent ethnologists, medical ethicists, historians, philosophers, and theologians--all facing up to questions of truth and value in the light of the urgent need to move past a strictly medicalized vision.
This volume serves as the second publication of The Comparison Project, an innovative new approach to the philosophy of religion housed at Drake University. The Comparison Project organizes a biennial series of scholar lectures, practitioner dialogues, and comparative panels about core, cross-cultural topics in the philosophy of religion. The Comparison Project stands apart from traditional, theistic approaches to the philosophy of religion in its commitment to religious inclusivity. It is the future of the philosophy of religion in a diverse, global world.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lucy Bregman received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is now Professor of Religion at Temple University in Philadelphia PA. She is the author of multiple books on death and dying, including Death in the Midst of Life: Perspectives on Death from Depth Psychology and Christianity (Baker Book House, 1992), Beyond Silence and Denial: Death and Dying Reconsidered (Westminster, 1999) and Preaching Death: The Transformation of American Funeral Sermons (Baylor, 2012). She has been active in the American Academy of Religion, and has Chaired the program unit on Death, Dying and Beyond. She loves to kayak on lakes.
Mary Gottschalk served as an adjunct professor at Drake from fall 2015 through spring 2017. In conjunction with The Comparison Project, she co-taught an undergraduate honors course on Comparative Religion that explored the theologies of death and rituals of dying. Mary’s focus was onthe conflict between religious traditions and modern medical practices. Her interest in bio-ethics and religion—an avocation rather than a career—began six years ago with issues of aging, and has expanded to include the intersection of bioethics and religion on a wide variety of medical innovations and procedures. Mary’s professional background was in the global financial markets. The author of a memoir and a novel, she also works as a freelance writer and editor. Mary has a B.A. from the University of Chicago and a M.B.A. from the University of Cincinnati.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Death and Dying
Book Subtitle: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion
Editors: Timothy D Knepper, Lucy Bregman, Mary Gottschalk
Series Title: Comparative Philosophy of Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19300-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19299-0Published: 16 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19302-7Published: 16 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19300-3Published: 02 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2522-0020
Series E-ISSN: 2522-0039
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 248
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Comparative Religion, Bioethics