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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... funerary rites / Douglas J. Davies . - 2nd ed . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-8264-5483-6 1. Death - Religious aspects - Comparative studies . 2. Funeral rites and ceremonies . I. Title BL504.D29 2002 ...
... funerary rites / Douglas J. Davies . - 2nd ed . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-8264-5483-6 1. Death - Religious aspects - Comparative studies . 2. Funeral rites and ceremonies . I. Title BL504.D29 2002 ...
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The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites Douglas Davies. ( 4 ) language is used as the crucial response to this challenge ; ( 5 ) funerary rites frame this verbal response , relating it to other behavioural features of music , movement , place ...
The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites Douglas Davies. ( 4 ) language is used as the crucial response to this challenge ; ( 5 ) funerary rites frame this verbal response , relating it to other behavioural features of music , movement , place ...
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The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites Douglas Davies. Rhetoric , as a process of employing speech to persuade people of some particular point , embraces all that is said about the dead and the bereaved in an attempt to encourage them and give ...
The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites Douglas Davies. Rhetoric , as a process of employing speech to persuade people of some particular point , embraces all that is said about the dead and the bereaved in an attempt to encourage them and give ...
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The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites Douglas Davies. positive function of death rites . Robertson Smith acknowledges the ' great range of funeral rites ' which exists , but beneath this variety he sees them as being ' all directed to make sure ...
The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites Douglas Davies. positive function of death rites . Robertson Smith acknowledges the ' great range of funeral rites ' which exists , but beneath this variety he sees them as being ' all directed to make sure ...
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The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites Douglas Davies. that death is under control , not least through religious ritual . While the reality of death cannot be totally eliminated , death rites do their best to keep its impact to a minimum ...
The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites Douglas Davies. that death is under control , not least through religious ritual . While the reality of death cannot be totally eliminated , death rites do their best to keep its impact to a minimum ...
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