Description
This book is about contemporary senses of life after death in the United States, Japan, and China.
By collecting and examining hundreds of interviews with people from all walks of life in these three societies, the book presents and compares personally held beliefs, experiences, and interactions with the concept of life after death. Three major aspects covered by the book Include, but are certainly not limited to, the enduring tradition of Japanese ancestor veneration, China's transition from state-sponsored materialism to the increasing belief in some form of afterlife, as well as the diversity in senses of, or disbelief in, life after death in the United States. Through these diverse first-hand testimonies the book reveals that underlying these changes in each society there is a shift from collective to individual belief, with people developing their own visions of what may, or may not, happen after death.
This book will be valuable reading for students of Anthropology as well as Religious, Cultural, Asian and American Studies. It will also be an impactful resource for professionals such as doctors, nurses, and hospice workers.
Author: Gordon Mathews, Yang Yang, Miu Ying Kwong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/24/2023
Pages: 186
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.42d
ISBN13: 9781032345031
ISBN10: 1032345039
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Religion | Buddhism | General (see also Philosophy | Buddhist)
- Religion | Confucianism
About the Author
Gordon Mathews is Professor in the Dept. of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Yang Yang has an M.Phil. degree in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Miu Ying Kwong has an M.Phil. degree in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, writing her thesis on senses of life after death in south China.
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