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RELS 211: Death and Dying in World Religions (Rev. C2) Report a Broken Link

Video

A Family Undertaking [video]

“A Family Undertaking,” POV, season 17, episode 4. Directed by Elizabeth Westrate, 2003. Brooklyn, NY: Icarus Films, 2010.
Shivah for my Mother [video]

Katzir, Yael. Shivah for my Mother: Seven Days of Mourning. Directed by Yael Katzir. 2003. Los Angeles: New Love Films, 2005.
Nakazawa, Shinichi and Douglas Penick. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life. Directed by Hiroaki Mori, Yukari Hayashi, and Barrie Mclean. 1994. New York: Kino Lorber, 2009.
Nakazawa, Shinichi and Douglas Penick. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation. Directed by Hiroaki Mori, Yukari Hayashi, and Barrie Mclean. 1994. New York: Kino Lorber, 2009.

Unit 7

Farnaz Masumian, “World Religions and Near-Death Experiences” in Janice Miner Holden, Bruce Greyson, and Debbie James, eds, The Handbook of Near Death Experiences: Thirty years of experience (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2009), 159-83.
Raymond Moody, “The Light Beyond: The Experience of Almost Dying” in Lee W. Bailey and Jenny Yates, eds. The Near-Death Experience: A Reader (New York: Routledge, 1996), 25-37
Judith Cressy, “Mysticism and the Near-Death Experience” in Lee W. Bailey and Jenny Yates, eds. The Near-Death Experience: A Reader (New York: Routledge, 1996), 369-84.
Kevin Williams, “Near-Death Experiences of Hindus,” Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife, 2014 International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDs): http://www.near-death.com/hindu.html
Sogyal Rinpoche, “The Near-Death Experience: A Staircase to Heaven?” in Patrick Gaffney & Andrew Harvey, eds. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (Toronto: PerfectBound/HarperCollins, 2002), 323-40.

Unit 8

Bregman, Lucy (Ed.). Religion, Death, and Dying, vol. 1, Perspectives on Dying and Death. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2010)

Unit 9

Bryant, Clifton D. (Ed.).  Handbook of Death and Dying, vol. 2, The Response to Death (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003)
Gary S. Gerson, “The Psychology of Grief and Mourning in Judaism,” Journal of Religion and Health 16, no. 4 (1977): 260-74.
Hend Yasien-Esmael and Simon Shimshon Rubin, “The Meaning Structures of Muslim Bereavements in Israel: Religious Traditions, Mourning Practices, and Human Experience,” Death Studies 29 (2005): 495-518.
Shirley Firth, “Loss, Grief, and Adjustment,” chap. 9 in New Religious Identities in the Western World, vol. 1, Dying, Death and Bereavement in a British Hindu Community (Leuven, BE: Peeters, 1997), 155-91.
Robert E. Goss and Dennis Klass, “Tibetan Buddhism and the Resolution of Grief: The Bardo-Thodol for the Dying and the Grieving,” Death Studies 21, no. 4 (1997): 377-95.
Dennis Klass, “Continuing Bonds in the Resolution of Grief in Japan and North America,” The American Behavioral Scientist 44, no. 5 (2001): 742-63.
John Walliss, “Continuing Bonds: Relationships between the Living and the Dead within Contemporary Spiritualism,” Mortality 6, no.2 (2001): 127-45.
Samuel C. Heilman, “The Twelve Months and Yahrzeit,” chap. in When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001), 182-201.

Unit 10

Robert Kastenbaum, “Good Death, Bad Death (II): Here and Now,” chap. 4 in On Our Way: The Final Passage through Life and Death (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004), 93-137.
Harold Coward and Kelli I. Stajduhar, eds.  Religious Understandings of a Good Death in Hospice Palliative Care, ed. (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2012).
Carlo Leget,  “Retrieving the ars moriendi Tradition,” in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 10 (2007): 313-19.