Patterns of Transcendence: Religion, Death, and Dying

by David Chidester

* Cross-cultural text examines social, religious, and cultural approaches to death and dying across Eastern and Western cultures and religious traditions..* Cross-cultural emphasis covering 4 patterns of transcendence: ancestral, experiential, cultural, and mythic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534117309
• ISBN13: 9780534117306
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.