DEATH, RITUAL AND BELIEF by Douglas Davies ( 9781474250948 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

Item Details

Title:

DEATH, RITUAL AND BELIEF
THE RHETORIC OF FUNERARY RITES

By:

Format:

Electronic book text

List price:	£24.99
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10:

1474250947

ISBN 13:

9781474250948

Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

2 November, 2017

Edition:

Epdf

Pages:

320

Synopsis:

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 many ways in which people have not let death have the last word, not simply in terms of funeral rites but also in memorials, graves, and in ideas of ancestors, souls, gods, reincarnation and resurrection, whether in the great religious traditions of the world or in more local customs. He also examines bereavement and grief, experiences of the presence of dead, near-death experiences, pet-death and the symbolic death played out in religious rites. Updated chapters have taken into account new research and include additional topics in this new edition, notably assisted dying, terrorism, green burial, material culture, death online, and the emergence of Death Studies as a distinctive field. Case studies range from Anders Breivik in Norway, to the Princess of Wales, and to the Rapture in the USA. A new perspective is also brought to his account of grief theories. Providing an introduction to key authors and authorities on death beliefs, bereavement, grief and ritual-symbolism, Death, Ritual and Belief is an authoritative guide to the perspectives of major religious and secular worldviews.

Illustrations:

11 bw illus

Publication:

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Academic

Returns:

Non-returnable

Some other items by this author:

A BRIEF HISTORY OF DEATH