
Facing Up to Mortality
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Daniel Liechty
Chapter One:
God is Sometimes Great! The Glory and Shame of Religion
Sheldon Solomon and Spee Kosloff
Chapter Two:
The Nature of Consciousness:
A Nondual (Advaita) Dialogue with Ernest Becker
Anantanand Rambachan
Chapter Three:
Religion as Umbrella, Religion as Path:
A Buddhist Perspective on Death Denial and Life Transformation
David R. Loy
Chapter Four:
L'Dor v'Dor: The Intergenerational Style of Hebraic 'Immortality'
Paul Cantz
Chapter Five:
Heroism, Sacrifice, and Jewish Identity:
Exploring Rabbinic Readings of the Esther Story
Jonathan Cohen
Chapter Six:
Naming Our Incompleteness:
A Christian Encounter with Ideas of Ernest Becker
Daniel Liechty
Chapter Seven:
Death, Self, and Political Survival in Islam and Islamicate Contexts
Anas Malik
Chapter Eight:
The Sacred Cosmos: Transcendence Without Absolutism
Merlyn E. Mowrey
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