Religion, Life, and Death - Pamela Leong

Religion, Life, and Death

Untangling Fears and the Search for Coherence

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Buch | Softcover
148 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-40473-8 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
Based on a content analysis of writing assignments from a class on death and dying, this book focuses on the manner in which college students use religion to make sense of death and the dying process.

Drawing on research spanning five years, the author considers the attitudes, concerns, and beliefs about death, exploring students’ perspectives on the place of religion in end-of-life issues. With attention to questions related to death anxiety, suicide, mass homicide, and the death of young children, the author examines the ways in which students draw on religion to make sense of death, religion’s function as both a source of comfort and empowerment and a source of distress, as well as the perceptions of those who resist religion.

As such, Religion, Life, and Death will appeal to social scientists with interests in the sociology of young adults, and the sociology and psychology of religion, death, and dying.

Pamela Leong is a professor of sociology at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. Leong is a sociology generalist who is interested in a wide array of sociology sub-disciplines and topics, as well as topics that venture into other academic disciplines. Her most recent research publications include two monographs: Rating Professors Online: How Culture, Technology, and Consumer Expectations Shape Modern Student Evaluations (2020) and Religion, Flesh, and Blood: The Convergence of HIV/AIDS, Black Sexual Expression, and Therapeutic Religion (2015).

1.Introduction. 2.The Link Between Religion, Health, and Death Anxiety. 3.Anticipating Death. 4.Religion and Tragic Deaths: Suicide and Homicide. 5.Religion and Tragic Deaths: The Death of Young Children. 6.Reflections on Life, Death, and Religion. 7.How College Students Use Religion to Comprehend Death. 8. Religious Interpretative Frameworks in the Face of Death.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in Sociology
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 285 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-032-40473-6 / 1032404736
ISBN-13 978-1-032-40473-8 / 9781032404738
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