[PDF.55iy] Dying the Good Death: The Pilgrimage to Die in India's Holy City

Dying the Good Death: The Pilgrimage to Die in India's Holy City

[PDF.gu92] Dying the Good Death: The Pilgrimage to Die in India's Holy City

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 | #1507488 in Books |  State University of New York Press |  1997-02-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.66 x5.98l,.88 | File type: PDF | 292 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Great book, but not for universal interest|By C. Woodcock|Since this book is a discussion of the death rituals and practices among the bhavans within Varanasi, India, interest in this book will only come from a select reader. For my own research purposes, this book was fantastic. In researching the death rituals of contemporary Hindus in Varanasi, one of the holiest cities co| |This book is about a fascinating topic. It is about the death retreats (bhavan) of Kashi where Hindu people go to die. It is also about the way in which individuals in the bhavan make sense of death within their social/cultural and religious environment. And i

Dying the Good Death is a unique ethnography, the first to focus on the experiences of dying at the end of the life cycle. In a region of northern India, some people at the end of their lives leave their villages and travel to the Hindu holy city of Kashi to die. These pilgrims expect that by dying in Kashi they will obtain the spiritual reward of moksha--liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth.

Based on fieldwork conducted in Kashi's hospices or "mansions of ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Dying the Good Death: The Pilgrimage to Die in India's Holy City   |  Christopher Justice. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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