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Title:

Death, dying, and the afterlife (DVD) : lessons from world cultures / producer, David C. White ; director, Jonathan D. Leven.

Publisher:

Teaching Company,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

Subject:

Death--Comparative studies.
Future life--Comparative studies.
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
Nonfiction films.
Religious films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

White, David C., 1982- film producer.
Leven, Jon, film director.

Notes:

Great Courses "Course no. 6822." 12 lectures in 2 volumes / 30 minutes per lecture on each DVD. Accompanying course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-226). Lecturer: Professor Mark Berkson, Hamline University.

Contents:

Disc 4. The value of death. Defining death ; Death, illusion, and meaning ; Is it rational to fear death ; Understanding and coping with grief ; Death rituals and the corpse -- Disc 2. American death rituals ; Approaches to dying well ; Judaism on death and the afterlife ; Death and hope in Christianity ; Islam on returning to God ; Death, rebirth, and liberation in Hinduism -- Disc 3. Buddhism on impermanence and mindfulness ; The process of dying in Tibetan Buddhism ; Confucian remembrance, Daoist forgetting ; Death and syncretism in China ; Suicide examined -- The choice of euthanasia -- Disc 4. Killing in war and the pacifist challenge ; Considering capital punishment ; Killing non-human animals ; Near-death experiences ; The pursuit of immortality ; The value of death.

Summary:

Explore how great faiths, philosophies, and cultures all over the world perceive death -- and existence -- in these life-affirming lectures.

ISBN:

9781629972459
1629972452

OCLC:

(OCoLC)944145921

Locations:

MIPA194 -- Alta Vista Public Library (Alta Vista)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)