Explore how great faiths, philosophies, and cultures all over the world perceive death (and life), guided by a religion scholar and award-winning professor.
Death, Dying, and the Afterlife: Lessons from World Cultures
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Death's Place in Our Lives
- 02: Defining Death
- 03: Death, Illusion, and Meaning
- 04: Is It Rational to Fear Death?
- 05: Understanding and Coping with Grief
- 06: Death Rituals and the Corpse
- 07: American Death Rituals
- 08: Approaches to Dying Well
- 09: Judaism on Death and the Afterlife
- 10: Death and Hope in Christianity
- 11: Islam on Returning to God
- 12: Death, Rebirth, and Liberation in Hinduism
- 13: Buddhism on Impermanence and Mindfulness
- 14: The Process of Dying in Tibetan Buddhism
- 15: Confucian Remembrance, Daoist Forgetting
- 16: Death and Syncretism in China
- 17: Suicide Examined
- 18: The Choice of Euthanasia
- 19: Killing in War and the Pacifist Challenge
- 20: Considering Capital Punishment
- 21: Killing Non-Human Animals
- 22: Near-Death Experiences
- 23: The Pursuit of Immortality
- 24: The Value of Death
Taught by
Mark Berkson
