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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... 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 Acknowledgements Some empirical and other material in this book originated Contents.
... 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 Acknowledgements Some empirical and other material in this book originated Contents.
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... secular memorial rites ( Gould , 1923 ) , including the stories that evoke the identity of the dead as told by family and friends and reflected , for example , in Ned Sherrin's anthology of readings , prayers and music for memorial ...
... secular memorial rites ( Gould , 1923 ) , including the stories that evoke the identity of the dead as told by family and friends and reflected , for example , in Ned Sherrin's anthology of readings , prayers and music for memorial ...
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... secular contexts rites are performed to locate the dead firmly in the past and in memory . Accordingly , this chapter adopts a strong sociological emphasis to show how death rites transform the status of the living into one appropriate ...
... secular contexts rites are performed to locate the dead firmly in the past and in memory . Accordingly , this chapter adopts a strong sociological emphasis to show how death rites transform the status of the living into one appropriate ...
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... secular world affirming religion ' where they go to a distinct heaven ( 1991 : 207 ) . In a more theoretically useful way Chidester's excellent study of death explored ' four characteristic ways of symbolizing the transcendence of death ...
... secular world affirming religion ' where they go to a distinct heaven ( 1991 : 207 ) . In a more theoretically useful way Chidester's excellent study of death explored ' four characteristic ways of symbolizing the transcendence of death ...
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... secular contexts ( Fenn , 1982 ) , and have explored ways in which Christianity's emphasis upon verbal truth has influenced Western cultures ( Fenn , 1987 ) . While they have also discussed the issue of death ( MacKinnon , 1957 : 261 ...
... secular contexts ( Fenn , 1982 ) , and have explored ways in which Christianity's emphasis upon verbal truth has influenced Western cultures ( Fenn , 1987 ) . While they have also discussed the issue of death ( MacKinnon , 1957 : 261 ...
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