The Resource Death, dying, and the afterlife : lessons from world cultures, producer, David C. White ; director, Jonathan D. Leven
Death, dying, and the afterlife : lessons from world cultures, producer, David C. White ; director, Jonathan D. Leven
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The item Death, dying, and the afterlife : lessons from world cultures, producer, David C. White ; director, Jonathan D. Leven represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library.
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- Summary
- Explore how great faiths, philosophies, and cultures all over the world perceive death -- and existence -- in these life-affirming lectures
- Language
-
- eng
- eng
- eng
- eng
- Extent
- 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.)
- Note
-
- "Course no. 6822."
- 12 lectures in 2 volumes / 30 minutes per lecture on each DVD
- Contents
-
- American death rituals
- Approaches to dying well
- Judaism on death and the afterlife
- Death and hope in Christianity
- Islam on returning to God
- Death, rebirth, and liberation in Hinduism
- Disc 3.
- Buddhism on impermanence and mindfulness
- The process of dying in Tibetan Buddhism
- Confucian remembrance, Daoist forgetting
- Disc 1.
- Death and syncretism in China
- Suicide examined
- The choice of euthanasia
- Disc 4.
- Killing in war and the pacifist challenge
- Considering capital punishment
- Killing non-human animals
- Near-death experiences
- The pursuit of immortality
- The value of death
- Death's place in our lives
- Defining death
- Death, illusion, and meaning
- Is it rational to fear death
- Understanding and coping with grief
- Death rituals and the corpse
- Disc 2.
- Isbn
- 9781629972459
- Label
- Death, dying, and the afterlife : lessons from world cultures
- Title
- Death, dying, and the afterlife
- Title remainder
- lessons from world cultures
- Statement of responsibility
- producer, David C. White ; director, Jonathan D. Leven
- Subject
-
- Death
- Death -- Comparative studies
- Educational films
- Educational films
- Films autres que de fiction
- Films religieux
- Films éducatifs
- Future life
- Comparative studies
- Lectures
- Lectures
- Mort -- Études comparatives
- Nonfiction films
- Nonfiction films
- Religious films
- Religious films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
- Vie future -- Études comparatives
- lectures
- Future life -- Comparative studies
- Conférences
- Language
-
- eng
- eng
- eng
- eng
- Summary
- Explore how great faiths, philosophies, and cultures all over the world perceive death -- and existence -- in these life-affirming lectures
- Cataloging source
- JRY
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Language note
- Closed captioned
- PerformerNote
- Lecturer: Professor Mark Berkson, Hamline University
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1982-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Berkson, Mark
- White, David C.
- Leven, Jon
- Runtime
- 720
- Series statement
- The great courses. Topic, Religion. Subtopic, Comparative & world religion
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Death
- Future life
- Mort
- Vie future
- Death
- Future life
- Technique
- live action
- Label
- Death, dying, and the afterlife : lessons from world cultures, producer, David C. White ; director, Jonathan D. Leven
- Note
-
- "Course no. 6822."
- 12 lectures in 2 volumes / 30 minutes per lecture on each DVD
- Accompanying material
- 1 course guidebook (vi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- Bibliography note
- Accompanying course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-226)
- Carrier category
-
- videodisc
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- vd
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
-
- rdacarrier
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
-
- two-dimensional moving image
- text
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- txt
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- American death rituals
- Approaches to dying well
- Judaism on death and the afterlife
- Death and hope in Christianity
- Islam on returning to God
- Death, rebirth, and liberation in Hinduism
- Disc 3.
- Buddhism on impermanence and mindfulness
- The process of dying in Tibetan Buddhism
- Confucian remembrance, Daoist forgetting
- Disc 1.
- Death and syncretism in China
- Suicide examined
- The choice of euthanasia
- Disc 4.
- Killing in war and the pacifist challenge
- Considering capital punishment
- Killing non-human animals
- Near-death experiences
- The pursuit of immortality
- The value of death
- Death's place in our lives
- Defining death
- Death, illusion, and meaning
- Is it rational to fear death
- Understanding and coping with grief
- Death rituals and the corpse
- Disc 2.
- Control code
- 944145921
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. +
- Dimensions
- other
- Extent
- 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.)
- Isbn
- 9781629972459
- Media category
-
- video
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
-
- rdamedia
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- v
- n
- Medium for sound
- videodisc
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
- Other physical details
- sound, color
- Publisher number
-
- PD6822A
- PB6822A
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
- videodisc
- System control number
- (OCoLC)944145921
- System details
- DVD
- Video recording format
- DVD
- Label
- Death, dying, and the afterlife : lessons from world cultures, producer, David C. White ; director, Jonathan D. Leven
- Note
-
- "Course no. 6822."
- 12 lectures in 2 volumes / 30 minutes per lecture on each DVD
- Accompanying material
- 1 course guidebook (vi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- Bibliography note
- Accompanying course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-226)
- Carrier category
-
- videodisc
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- vd
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
-
- rdacarrier
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
-
- two-dimensional moving image
- text
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- txt
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- American death rituals
- Approaches to dying well
- Judaism on death and the afterlife
- Death and hope in Christianity
- Islam on returning to God
- Death, rebirth, and liberation in Hinduism
- Disc 3.
- Buddhism on impermanence and mindfulness
- The process of dying in Tibetan Buddhism
- Confucian remembrance, Daoist forgetting
- Disc 1.
- Death and syncretism in China
- Suicide examined
- The choice of euthanasia
- Disc 4.
- Killing in war and the pacifist challenge
- Considering capital punishment
- Killing non-human animals
- Near-death experiences
- The pursuit of immortality
- The value of death
- Death's place in our lives
- Defining death
- Death, illusion, and meaning
- Is it rational to fear death
- Understanding and coping with grief
- Death rituals and the corpse
- Disc 2.
- Control code
- 944145921
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. +
- Dimensions
- other
- Extent
- 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.)
- Isbn
- 9781629972459
- Media category
-
- video
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
-
- rdamedia
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- v
- n
- Medium for sound
- videodisc
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 655
- Other physical details
- sound, color
- Publisher number
-
- PD6822A
- PB6822A
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
- videodisc
- System control number
- (OCoLC)944145921
- System details
- DVD
- Video recording format
- DVD
Subject
- Death
- Death -- Comparative studies
- Educational films
- Educational films
- Films autres que de fiction
- Films religieux
- Films éducatifs
- Future life
- Comparative studies
- Lectures
- Lectures
- Mort -- Études comparatives
- Nonfiction films
- Nonfiction films
- Religious films
- Religious films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
- Vie future -- Études comparatives
- lectures
- Future life -- Comparative studies
- Conférences
Genre
- Films autres que de fiction
- Films religieux
- Films éducatifs
- Lectures
- Nonfiction films
- Religious films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
- Educational films
- Études comparatives
- lectures
- Conférences
- Comparative studies
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