RG ST 12 Lecture 15: Religious Approaches to Death (All Lecture Notes)
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Religious strategies for coping with death commemoration, etc) Ritual : allow us to care for loved ones through prescribed activities (burial, offerings, Doctrine : provides teachings on the life of the dead- their worlds, their joys and. Cemetery : (greek koime-terion, sleeping place ) sufferings, and how we are relate to them. Rituals that surround care for the dead are activities that bring together living human activities with the supernatural dead. Invisible parts (soul, spirit) are what are considered to move on in the afterlife. Soul and spirit that lingers on after body dies doesn"t go somewhere else because rituals are performed properly or something goes wrong. Surface of our planet is covered with the remains of the dead. Remains permeate into the entire skins of the earth (soil, water, air) Call them for information of the future that we can"t see, want to make sure that they are dead and stay dead to leave us alone.
