Life After Death Today in the United States, Japan, and China

This book is about contemporary senses of life after death in the United States, Japan, and China.

List of contents

1. Senses of Life After Death Past and Present 2. The United States: Life After Death in a Christian/Post-Christian Nation 3. Japan: The Strictures of Life Before Death and the Freedom of Life After Death 4. China: The Loss of a This-World Utopia, and the Lure of a World Beyond 5. Life After Death/Life Before Death and Their Linkages

About the author

Gordon Mathews is Professor in the Dept. of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Yang Yang has an M.Phil. degree in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Miu Ying Kwong has an M.Phil. degree in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, writing her thesis on senses of life after death in south China.

Summary

This book is about contemporary senses of life after death in the United States, Japan, and China.

Product details

• Authors: Miu Ying Kwong, Gordon Mathews, Gordon Yang Mathews, Mathews Gordon, Yang Yang, Yang Yang
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.2023
• EAN: 9781032345024
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3234502-4
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; China, Sociology, RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, Philosophy, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Shintoism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Confucianism, Buddhism, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Religion: general, Christianity, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general