Near the exit travels with the not-so-grim reaper
Near the exit examines how different cultures confront and have confronted death.
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| Language: | English |
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Louisville, Kentucky :
Westminster John Knox Press,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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.
