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Author:

Erickson, Lori, author.

Title:

Near the exit : travels with the not-so-grim reaper / Lori Erickson.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Westminster John Knox Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Burial--History.
Cemeteries--History.
Death--Religious aspects.
Death--History.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--History.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Death--Religious aspects.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-170).

Contents:

A tutorial in death -- In the field of reeds: Egypt -- God's waiting room: nursing homes -- Joining the ancestors: among the Maori in New Zealand -- Entering the shadowlands: hospice -- Descending the nine layers: with the Aztecs and the Mayans -- Crossing the Jordan: funerals -- With the gurus on the mountain top: Crestone, Colorado -- Resting in peace: graveyards -- Welcoming sister death: Rome and Assisi.

Summary:

Near the exit examines how different cultures confront and have confronted death.

ISBN:

0664265677
9780664265670

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1089966477

LCCN:

2019001529

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