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Facing Up to Mortality

Interfaith/Interreligious Explorations
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Exploring a new approach to interfaith/interreligious communication, the contributors to this collection seek to interact from the perspective of their own tradition or academic discipline with Ernest Becker's theory on the relationship between religion, culture and the human awareness of death and mortality. While much interfaith/interreligious dialogue focuses on beliefs and practices, thus delineating areas of disagreement as a starting point, these chapters foster interactive communication rooted in areas of the universal human experience. Thus by demonstration these authors argue for the integrity and efficacy of this approach for pursuing intercultural and interdisciplinary communication.
Daniel Liechty is professor of social work and distinguished lecturer in arts and sciences at Illinois State University.
Introduction Daniel Liechty Chapter One: God is Sometimes Great! The Glory and Shame of Religion Sheldon Solomon and Spee Kosloff Chapter Two: The Nature of Consciousness: A Nondual (Advaita) Dialogue with Ernest Becker Anantanand Rambachan Chapter Three: Religion as Umbrella, Religion as Path: A Buddhist Perspective on Death Denial and Life Transformation David R. Loy Chapter Four: L'Dor v'Dor: The Intergenerational Style of Hebraic 'Immortality' Paul Cantz Chapter Five: Heroism, Sacrifice, and Jewish Identity: Exploring Rabbinic Readings of the Esther Story Jonathan Cohen Chapter Six: Naming Our Incompleteness: A Christian Encounter with Ideas of Ernest Becker Daniel Liechty Chapter Seven: Death, Self, and Political Survival in Islam and Islamicate Contexts Anas Malik Chapter Eight: The Sacred Cosmos: Transcendence Without Absolutism Merlyn E. Mowrey
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