Journal of Death and Life Studies (2004-spring, vol.3)

published : March 20, 2004

Masahiro Shimoda

Toward Emancipating Ourselves from a Particular Notion of Death: As Suggested by the History of Religion in Ancient India and Buddhism

Hiroshi Ando

Representations of 'death' in modern Japanese literature --- Focusing on the 1920s to 30s

Akira Yoshida

'Life' and 'the I', from the Phenomenological Point of View

Go Kurihara

Death and Life in Jinsai Ito's Ethical Theory

Kimitoshi Ueno

The Reality of Life --- Referring to the Problems of Surrogate Mother

Hatsumi Takemura

The Discourses on Spirituality in the Indigenous Hawaiian People's Movement

Chieko Osawa

The Death and Life Views of Children's Literature

Workshop "Bioscience and Spirituality, A New Approach to Bioethics"

• Susumu Shimazono
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• William Hurlbut
  Keynote Speech : Cloning, Embryos and Ethics
• Susumu Shimazono
  Comments : The Dignity of Human Life and the Spirituality of Human Race
• Shinzo Kato
  Comments : Spirituality in Bioscience
• Discussion

Mie Kuroiwa

Iconography of life and death in the Bibles moralisées (2): The representation of life and death in the Thirteenth Century

Megumi Kaneko

Religious orientation and its effects on psychological well-being in the United States and Japan: A secondary analysis of ISSP survey data

Yumi Furusawa

Shi-no-Rinsho (Clinical Research on Death and Dying) and Spirituality: Rethinking the Medicalization of Grief and the Secularization of Terminal Care

Daisuke Tanaka

Studying the Funeral Industry: Social Trends in Understanding Death

Maki Fukuoka

Portraits as iei : The Cases of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Nakae Chomin

Takashi Asao

Book Review : "Seimei no Seiji-gaku"(by Yoshinori Hiroi)

Special Lecture by Hugh Mellor

• Masaki Ichinose
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• Hugh Mellor
  What does decision theory tell us.(translated)