Comparative Study of Death

Science and Blank Pages

I. Science has not replaced religion
  A. U.S. practice & belief at an all time high
  B. Type vs. amount of education

II. Science is a product of own time & place
  A. Implicit political agenda
  B. Dominated by men
  C. Skepticism not unique to science
  D. Science uses familiar to understand unfamiliar
    1. Ex. Jane Goodall & chimp
    2. Ex. Journal of Longevity
    3. Ex. Scientific quest for immortality

III. Durkheim and Freud as late comers
  A. The “cause above all causes” in the Zohar
  B. Maya concept of “God” as nothing
  C. Valentinus & Gnostic’s “true divine Source”
  D. Tibetan Book of the Dead

IV. American religion in a transformed context
  A. Freedom of religion
  B. Anti-institutional form of American religion
  C. Freud & Durkheim’s own subjectivity
  D. Avery Gordon & Ghostly Matters
  E. Michel De Certeau & blank pages of science