RELIGST 2M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chuukese Language, Unconscious Mind, Myocardial Infarction

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2M03
• Professor: Sherry Smith

Document Summary

These women believed that women who weren"t enslaved would die a good death: founded early 19th century, brazil, candomble: roman cantholisim and blending of relgions, dance in honour of the god, oral religion: no written, festa da boa morte. Nature of the funeral rituals: defiition of death, probolamtic to deifne death, the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an animal or plant . (websters dictionary, cultural/religious variations e. g. south pacific; trukese of micronesia; Hinduism; christanity; buddhism: person can be defined dead without the criteria of the definition from websters, people define being dead at 40 because you cannot do the same things you dead before that age, western views believe death happens once yet after death there is an after death, death can influence the well being of the living, variations of death: cultural variations, acceptable/good death, allan kellahear: distinction between the two.