Author : Rajmani Tigunait
Publisher : Himalayan Institute Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780893891473
Through a series of lively stories drawn from the ancient scriptures and his own experience, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait reveals the truth about karma, how we create it, why it becomes our destiny, and how we can use it to shape the future of our dreams. From Death to Birth will give you insight into life's most perplexing questions.
Author : Ernest Becker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1439118426
Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.
Author : Sara Heinämaa
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253222370
Issues surrounding birth and death have been fundamental for Western philosophy as well as for individual existence. The contributors to this volume unravel the gendered aspects of the classical philosophical discourses on death, bringing in discussions about birth, creativity, and the entire chain of human activity. By linking their work to major thinkers such as Heidegger, Nietzsche, Beauvoir, and Arendt, and to major philosophical currents such as ancient philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, and social and political philosophy, they challenge prevailing feminist articulations of birth and death. These philosophical reflections add an important sexual dimension to current thinking on identity, temporality, and community.
Author : Paul H. Dunn
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781562362393
Author : Kath Woodward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1351212613
Usually conceived in opposition to each other – birth as a hopeful beginning, death as an ending – this book brings them into dialogue with each other to argue that both are central to our experiences of being in the world and part of living. Written by two authors, this book takes an intergenerational approach to highlight the connections and disconnections between birth and death; adopting a relational approach allows the book to explore birth and death through the key relationships that constitute them: personal and social, private and public, the affective and social norms, the actual and the virtual and the ordinary and profound. Of interest to academics and students in the fields of feminism, phenomenology and the life course, the book will also be of relevance to policy makers in the areas of birth activism and end of life care. Drawing from personal stories, everyday life and publicly contested examples, the book will also be of interest to a more general readership as it engages with questions we all at some point will grapple with.
Author : James E. Hightower
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780789005717
Discover the manual that will help you teach ministry students and effectively minister to people in all developmental stages! Caring for People from Birth to Death is a helpful resource for people who care for people. Each chapter describes a particular stage of development in the human pilgrimage from the preschool years to senior adulthood--from the cradle to the rocking chair. Guidelines and usable suggestions for a caring ministry are included in each chapter. In Caring for People from Birth to Death spirituality as it relates to the developmental process is explored by the contributors with a new section in each chapter that concerns the growth and decline of a person's spirituality throughout his or her life. Some of the issues you will explore in this new edition include: developmental theories and spiritual issues for every stage of life caring for the elderly through a team effort ministering to confused adolescents expanding your parishioners'feelings of self-worth the fundamentals of teaching preschoolers about Jesus working towards spiritual growth in adult males Caring for People from Birth to Death is for seminary students studying developmental psychology and ministry, for CPE training programs, for pastoral counseling training programs, seminary professors, pastoral counselors, and church staff ministers. This concise handbook will help you quickly grasp the developmental issues people face and give you ideas on how the church can effectively minister to these folks. This book is updated from its original publication, and each contributor's intrinsic style has remained intact for you as you explore and learn from this complete manual on ministering to your community members. Caring for People from Birth to Death offers you practical, ready-to-use strategies for understanding, taking care of, and ministering to people of all ages.
Author : Michelle King
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804785983
Female infanticide is a social practice often closely associated with Chinese culture. Journalists, social scientists, and historians alike emphasize that it is a result of the persistence of son preference, from China's ancient past to its modern present. Yet how is it that the killing of newborn daughters has come to be so intimately associated with Chinese culture? Between Birth and Death locates a significant historical shift in the representation of female infanticide during the nineteenth century. It was during these years that the practice transformed from a moral and deeply local issue affecting communities into an emblematic cultural marker of a backwards Chinese civilization, requiring the scientific, religious, and political attention of the West. Using a wide array of Chinese, French and English primary sources, the book takes readers on an unusual historical journey, presenting the varied perspectives of those concerned with the fate of an unwanted Chinese daughter: a late imperial Chinese mother in the immediate moments following birth, a male Chinese philanthropist dedicated to rectifying moral behavior in his community, Western Sinological experts preoccupied with determining the comparative prevalence of the practice, Catholic missionaries and schoolchildren intent on saving the souls of heathen Chinese children, and turn-of-the-century reformers grappling with the problem as a challenge for an emerging nation.
Author : Amy Wright Glenn
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2013-03-03
Category : Meditations
ISBN : 9781482079821
At the age of fourteen, Amy Wright Glenn began to question the Mormon faith of her family. She embarked on a life long personal and scholarly quest for truth. While teaching comparative religion and philosophy, Amy was drawn to the work of supporting women through labor and holding compassionate space for the dying. Amy shares moving tales of birth and death while drawing on her work as a birth doula, hospital chaplain, and her own experience of motherhood. We are born, we die, and in between these irrevocable facts of human existence the breath weaves all moments together. "Birth, Breath, and Death" entwines story, philosophy, and poetic reflection into transforming narratives that are full of grace.
Author : Charles Spezzano
Publisher : William Morrow & Company
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780688103996
Essays discuss adulthood, parental relations, marriage, work, maturity, responsibility, and gaining control of one's life
Author : Robert Woods
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199542759
A study of fetal health from the seventeenth century to the present day (focusing principally upon European and North American populations), this is the first book to offer a historical perspective on the subject and to combine both medical history and demographic research, using long-term and comparative perspectives.
