xii, 247 pages ; 24 cm; Based on papers prepared for the annual convention of the American Academy of Religion held in Chicago, 1973.; Comparative studies --Mythologies of death : an introduction /Mircea Eliade --Death and the dead in the pilgrimage process /Victor Turner --Mesoamerica and Africa --The black man in the cave in Chapultepec : an Aztec variant on the gatekeeper motif /Franke J. Neumann --Death, kingship, and royal ancestors in Buganda /Benjamin Ray --Indian traditions -- myth and meditation --Death as a necessity and a gift in Hindu mythology /J. Bruce Long --"The death that conquers death" : dying to the world in Medieval Hinduism /David R. Kinsley --Indian traditions -- ritual practice --Sapiṇḍīkarana : the Hindu rite of entry into heaven /David M. Knipe --Parsi Zoroastrian myth and ritual : some problems of their relevance for death and dying /Cyrus R. Pangborn --A Japanese Buddhist perspective --Practicing dying : the Samurai-Zen death techniques of Suzuki Shōsan /Winston L. King --Biblical and Judaic traditions --Human mortality as a problem in Ancient Israel /Wolfram Herrmann --The Holocaust and the Kiddush Hashem in Hassidic thought /Pesach Schindler --Islamic traditions --Death and dying in the Qur'ān /Alford T. Welch --Muḥarram rites : community death and rebirth /Earle H. Waugh --North American and Christian traditions --In search of paradigms : death and destiny in seventeenth-century North America /Glen W. Davidson --The death of Father Abraham : the assassination of Lincoln and its effect on frontier mythology /Donald Capps.; 

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