The Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents

This book describes how parents lose, find, or relocate spiritual anchors after the death of their child. It describes how ordinary people reconstruct their lives after their foundations have shifted, and how they make sense of their world after one of their centers of meaning has been removed. Klass grounds his descriptions of spirituality in his scholarly study of comparative religions, and in his two decades studying the lives of bereaved parents. He argues that continuing bonds with their dead children can give parents a new transcendent reality. Deceased children, like saints or bodhisattvas, can offer a bridge between the profane and sacred worlds, support parents as they find meaning in a world made forever poorer, and bind together a community adequate to parents’ grief. The book reports Klass’s clinical practice and his work as advisor to a bereaved parents self-help support group.Additional ISBNs: 0876309902, 0876309910, 1315803518, 9780876309902, 9780876309919, 9781315803517, 131777177X, 1317771761, 1306132045, 1317771753, 9781317771777, 9781317771760, 9781306132046, 9781317771753The Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents 1st Edition is written by Dennis Klass and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for The Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents are 9781317771760, 1317771761 and the print ISBNs are 9780876309919, 0876309910.