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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... especially conversion , mysticism and possession , help generate a sense of identity while some rites actively confer identity , as in baptism , or Islamic pilgrimage . Indeed , some sociologists think that the sense of personal ...
... especially conversion , mysticism and possession , help generate a sense of identity while some rites actively confer identity , as in baptism , or Islamic pilgrimage . Indeed , some sociologists think that the sense of personal ...
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... especially during critical moments in life , as when vows are taken at marriage or in courts of law . At times of death language can assume significant proportion as sympathy is expressed to comfort the bereaved and as eulogies reflect ...
... especially during critical moments in life , as when vows are taken at marriage or in courts of law . At times of death language can assume significant proportion as sympathy is expressed to comfort the bereaved and as eulogies reflect ...
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... especially in Australia ( see Chapter 15 ) . Highlighting the life of the deceased , they employ professionals other than clergy to engage in what is , effectively , a rhetoric of bereavement . Such rhetoric has long held a place in the ...
... especially in Australia ( see Chapter 15 ) . Highlighting the life of the deceased , they employ professionals other than clergy to engage in what is , effectively , a rhetoric of bereavement . Such rhetoric has long held a place in the ...
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... especially Hertz , Durkheim , Malinowski , Van Gennep , Douglas , Bauman and Bloch , whose basic ideas we will now outline in a description which interlinks their contribution . Transforming processes Robert Hertz ( 1882-1915 ) ...
... especially Hertz , Durkheim , Malinowski , Van Gennep , Douglas , Bauman and Bloch , whose basic ideas we will now outline in a description which interlinks their contribution . Transforming processes Robert Hertz ( 1882-1915 ) ...
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... especially in literate societies , but there is another dimension of even greater significance . For , as the baby grows through childhood and into adulthood , it acquires a tremendous amount of information about its world by imitating ...
... especially in literate societies , but there is another dimension of even greater significance . For , as the baby grows through childhood and into adulthood , it acquires a tremendous amount of information about its world by imitating ...
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