BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: The Meanings of Death - John Bowker: Canto, pounds 6.95
Does religion spring simply from the need to believe in an afterlife? Not at all, says this lucid study of Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Muslim and Buddhist approaches, which finds, among much diversity, a common recognition of death as both the last enemy, and necessary condition, of life.
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