RELI 2732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Like Life, Pain Management
17 Apr 2017
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One is a sociological study and one is a literary account of one man"s experience of dying and death. Book: the eclipse of eternity, a sociology of the afterlife by tony walter. Secularization: literally means becoming worldly, the turning away from religion. Religious perspective always presupposes a reality beyond the visual and senses. Secular view: only this life in the life of the senses. Death in the modern world is an alienating and terrifying experience. According to this view our society isolates the old, the ill, the dying. People are put in special wards in hospitals, and old age homes. Intensely grieving people are not so welcome in society. Because of secularization, modern society has lost the religious ritual and symbols that comforted past generations that helped with death and grief. The loss of religion has left people without the strategies that once helped people. Agrees with thesis 1 that modern death is terrifying and proposes that:
