Journal of Death and Life Studies (2005-spring, vol.5)

published : March 25, 2005

Susumu Shimazono

Religious Culture and the Value of Life

Akira Kaneko

Religious Discourse at the Clinical Scene: “Instruction Rgarding Illness” in Tenrikyo

Masako Kawa

Spiritual pain of patients suffering from terminal cancer and being cared for at Japanese palliative care units

Tetsuya Sakakibara

Phenomenology of Caring for the Living and the Dying

Izumi Ohtani

On Ohta Tenrei: Eutopia and Distopia of His Thoughts Concerning Euthanasia

Ken-ichi Maegawa

Myōe as an esoteric healer

Takayuki Ota

Onnagoroshiaburanojigoku”-“Jigoku” and “Gou”

Hitoshi Tanaka

“Death is the Romanticizing principle of our life” —— Novalis’ Diary and Letters in 1797 and his Poetics of “Romanticizing

Report of Symposium"The Co-Existence of the Dead and the Living"

Peter Schaber

"The ethical problems of stem cell research"

Alex Rosenberg

"Fitness, probability, and the principles of natural selection"

Satoru Kimura

Dancing with the Dead: One Aspect of Ankoku Butoh Methodology

Tomomichi Nitta

Buddhism and the “Sanctity of Life”: A Consideration on the Fetish for “life” by Present Buddhists

Takashi Iguchi

What is the new care approach toward the elderly with dementia? : Change process in the approach toward the dementia in policy discourse in Japan