Death, Ritual, and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary RitesBloomsbury Publishing, 2002 M06 1 - 272 pages Describing a great variety of funeral ritual from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures not only cope with corpses but also create an added value for living through the encouragement of afterlife beliefs. The explosion of interest in death in recent years reflects the key theme of this book - the rhetoric of death - the way cultures use the most potent weapon of words to bring new power to life. This new edition is one third longer than the original with new material on the death of Jesus, the most theorized death ever which offers a useful case study for students. There is also empirical material from contemporary/recent events such as the death of Diana and an expanded section on theories of grief which will make the book more attractive to death counsellors. |
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... Britain by Cassell 1997 This edition published by Continuum 2002 Douglas Davies 1997 , 2002 All rights reserved . No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means , electronic or mechanical ...
... Britain by Cassell 1997 This edition published by Continuum 2002 Douglas Davies 1997 , 2002 All rights reserved . No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means , electronic or mechanical ...
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... Britain and also by the Golders Green Foundation . I thank these organizations for their support in research . Permission to reprint excerpts from Dylan Thomas , Poems of Dylan Thomas , copyright 1952 by Dylan Thomas , is given by New ...
... Britain and also by the Golders Green Foundation . I thank these organizations for their support in research . Permission to reprint excerpts from Dylan Thomas , Poems of Dylan Thomas , copyright 1952 by Dylan Thomas , is given by New ...
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... Britain . Globalization , rooted in a media - filled world of information and fostered by a post - modern context in which time and space become condensed into immediate awareness , makes these risk factors in life all the more locally ...
... Britain . Globalization , rooted in a media - filled world of information and fostered by a post - modern context in which time and space become condensed into immediate awareness , makes these risk factors in life all the more locally ...
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... Britain , for example , we can see how the traditional statement ' we commit his body to the ground , earth to earth , ashes to ashes , dust to dust ' constitutes a clear performative utterance . Also accompanied by an act , that of ...
... Britain , for example , we can see how the traditional statement ' we commit his body to the ground , earth to earth , ashes to ashes , dust to dust ' constitutes a clear performative utterance . Also accompanied by an act , that of ...
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... Britain , for various family members to take part in funerals , and even more so in memorial services which may be held sometime after the funeral . In situations of group tragedies where , for example , schoolchildren have died or been ...
... Britain , for various family members to take part in funerals , and even more so in memorial services which may be held sometime after the funeral . In situations of group tragedies where , for example , schoolchildren have died or been ...
Contents
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Impurity Fertility and Fear | 24 |
3 Theories of Grief | 43 |
4 Violence Sacrifice and Conquest | 62 |
5 Eastern Destiny and Death | 81 |
6 Ancestors Cemeteries and Local Identity | 91 |
7 Jewish and Islamic Destinies | 118 |
8 Christianity and the Death of Jesus | 125 |
10 Somewhere to Die | 155 |
11 Souls and the Presence of the Dead | 163 |
12 Pet and Animal Death | 182 |
13 Book Film and Building | 196 |
14 Offending Death Grief and Religions | 211 |
15 Secular Death and Life | 224 |
Bibliography | 240 |
Index | 258 |
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afterlife amongst ancestors animals anthropologist argued ashes aspects associated become belief bereavement Bloch body Britain British British Humanist Association Buddhism burial buried cemeteries cent Chapter Christian church concerned contemporary context corpse cremated remains crematoria cultures D. J. Davies death rites deceased described dying emotion emphasize especially euthanasia example existence express fact fact of death focused funeral rites funerary rites grave grief groups human idea identity important increasingly individual interpreted involved issue Jesus kind living major memory modern Mormon mortuary mummification nature near-death experience offending death particular performative utterance period pet death popular post-modernity practice psychological realm rebounding violence reflects reincarnation relationship relatively religion religious response resurrection rhetoric ritual sacrifice salvation secular sense shamanism significance social society sociological soul speak spiritual status stress stupa symbolic theological theory tomb traditional transcendence twentieth century words against death Zoroastrians