RELIGST 2M03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Chief Dan George, Thanatology, Social Death

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2M03
• Professor: Laura Parker

Document Summary

Thanatology the study of death: kastenbaum thanatology is the study of life with death left in it, dimensions of thanatology. 55-57 million people die each year leading cause is cardiovascular disease. Ethnocentrism making judgements about others in terms of own cultural biases. Cultural relativism the belief that society should be understood in terms of its own cultural beliefs and practices. Death system robert kastenbaum the interpersonal, sociocultural and symbolical network through which an individual"s relationship to mortality is mediated by his or her society: components of death system. Objects: functions of the death system. Killing film mexican day of dead son playing video games and less fearful of death. Chief dan george 1982 death poem death comes to us in many ways . Definitions of death: webster"s definition very western, problematic definitions vary, other concepts of death. Hinduism cycle of death and rebirth. Christianity things continue after death afterlife. Buddhist - dead and living coexist, dead can influence the well-