Cultural Variances in Composition of Biological and Supernatural Concepts of Death: A Content Analysis of Children's Literature.
Children's reasoning about the afterlife emerges naturally as a developmental regularity. Although a biological understanding of death increases in accordance with cognitive development, biological and supernatural explanations of death may coexist in a complementary manner, being deeply imbedded in...
| Published in: | Death Studies Vol. 38; no. 8; pp. 538 - 546 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2014
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