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This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together religious leaders, medical doctors, hospital chaplains and academics to discuss Jewish and Muslim perceptions of the processes of dying, death, and bereavement. Papers will discuss (but will not be limited to) the following areas:
• Ethical considerations about what causes death, what constitutes the moment of death
• Jewish and Muslim approaches to Brain Death criteria, Euthanasia, Autopsy and Cremation
• Jewish and Muslim approaches to different types of death, neonatal death, abortion, suicide, homicide, martyrdom, etc.
• Ritual practises related to death, burial, funerary rituals and annual rites for commemorating the dead
• Jewish and Islamic understandings of mourning
• Conceptualisations of hell and paradise in Judaism and Islam
• Theological constructs of time, life and death
Overall, the conference seeks to understand how in Judaism and Islam ideas attached to death generate meanings for the living and the how this is experienced and put into practice by Jews and Muslims in Britain today.
Please note that attendance is by registration only
For more information, including program and how to register, please, visit:
http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/cmjr/news-and-events/index.php
http://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/Life%20and%20Death.htm
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