Death, ritual, and belief : the rhetoric of funerary rites /
"Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of 'words against death' it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the man...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2017.
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to Second Edition; Preface to Third Edition; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Interpreting death rites; Introducing the theory; Words and humanity; Perspectives in death studies; Sociological and anthropological explanations; Human body as microcosm; Identity and embodiment; Rites of passage; Psychological explanations; Hope and survival; Death and transcendence; Chapter 2: Coping with corpses: Impurity, fertility and fear; Burying, caves and cemeteries; Burning bodies; Funerals as two-phased rituals
- Modern cremation ritesCremation in Britain; Hertz and cremation; Modern treatment of ashes; The politics of burial and cremation; Air, earth and water disposal; Space for bodies; Impurity, fear and fertility: Values of the corpse; Food against death; Chapter 3: Theories of grief; Psychoanalytic forces; Evolutionary aspects; Ritual transcendence; Reservations; Performing grief; Tears and emotion; Embodiment, soul and role; Popular psychology of grief in Greece; Grief: Normality or illness?; Motherhood and loss of child; Behavioural, cognitive and stress-focused theories
- Stage theories of griefContinuing bonds and narrative approaches; Dividuality and grief; Chapter 4: Violence, sacrifice and conquest; Control and death; Sacrificial violence and war; Chapter 5: Eastern destiny and death; Zoroastrian-Parsee death rites; Indian death rites; Buddhism; Chapter 6: Ancestors, cemeteries and local identity; Mummies East and West; Ancestors, identity and death; Identity, emigration and ancestors; Cemeteries and ethnic identity; Ancestral Mormonism; Myths of death; Competing and complementing rites; Chapter 7: Jewish and Islamic Destinies; Judaism; Islam
- Books and wordsChapter 8: Christianity and the death of Jesus; Death, life and Jesus; Early Christianity and graves; Christianity and the death of Jesus; Folk beliefs in Christian cultures; Retrospective fulfilment of identity; Theological concern; Chapter 9: Near-death, symbolic death and rebirth; Symbolic power of death; Imagination, hope and survival; Initiation rituals; Spiritual rebirth in Christianity; Shamanism; Wounded healers; Near-death experience; Chapter 10: Somewhere to die; Home deathbed; Hospital bed; Hospice; Roadside deaths; Battlefield memorials; National Memorial Arboretum
- Locating deathAge and place; Chapter 11: Souls and the presence of the dead; The nineteenth century; Popular British views on reincarnation; The dead in living memory; Chapter 12: Pet and animal death; The death of dogs and cats; Human and animal remains; Symbolic animals; Surveying pet death, 1992; Animal souls; Bereavement and pet death; Animal grief; Chapter 13: Robots, books, films and buildings; Religious sources; Media sources; Television; Music; Hymns and music; Sculpture; Exhibition and art; Poetic words against death; Humane words against death; Architecture of death; Death studies