Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Parry, Joan K.
2. Ryan, Angela Shen.

Description

1. xxvi, 251 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. The Nelson-Hall series in social work

Subject

1. Death > Cross-cultural studies
2. Death > Religious aspects > Comparative studies

Contents

1. Women, death, and dying / Joan M. Merdinger -- The Roman Catholic/Christian church and AIDS / Ursula M. Gerty -- Judaism and death : practice implications / George S. Getzel -- Walking through the valley of the shadow of death : grief and fundamentalism / Gary R. Anderson -- Death and dying : an Islamic perspective / Ahmed H. Sakr -- Buddhism, death, and dying / Wing Yeung -- Death, dying, and religion among Domincan immigrants / Ana M. Paulino -- Mexican-American women : death and dying / Juliette S. Silva -- Spirituality and death and dying from a gay perspective / David A. Housel --The lesbian perspective on death and dying / Idella M. Evans and Julie Carter -- Guinea across the water : the African-American approach to death and dying / John L. Bolling -- May the circle be unbroken : the African-American experience of death, dying, and spirituality / Martha Adams Sullivan -- Understanding death, dying, and religion : a Chinese perspective / Peter Ching-Yung Lee -- Death, dying, and grief in the Chinese-American culture / Jane G. Tanner -- The Korean perspective on death and dying / Daniel B. Lee -- The Filipino perspective on death and dying / Ihande Weber.

Call number

1. JFE 97-13811

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index.

Title

1. A cross-cultural look at death, dying, and religion / edited by Joan K. Parry and Angela Shen Ryan.

Imprint

1. Chicago : Nelson-Hall Publishers, c1995.

Series

1. The Nelson-Hall series in social work

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index.

Added author

1. Parry, Joan K.
2. Ryan, Angela Shen.

LCCN

1. 94042941

ISBN

1. 0830413332 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 97-13811