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Death, Ritual and Faith: The Rhetoric of Funeral Rites

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Death, Ritual and Faith: The Rhetoric of Funeral Rites
14.99 €
Rituals and texts, through which people of different cultures try to come to terms with the idea of death, have been of interest since the classics of social sciences - E. Tylor, E. Durkheim, B. Malinowski. By now, the disciplinary boundaries of death studies have become much broader, and this field of humanitarian research claims to be one of the most popular and actively developing. The book by anthropologist and theologian Douglas Davis is a survey work that can serve as an excellent introduction to this scholarly tradition. Davis draws on the concept of "word against death," which views funeral rituals as a human response to the most frightening aspect of one's own nature, an attempt to adapt to it and even overcome it. From this position, the scholar considers a wide range of issues that include human responses to the loss of loved ones and theories of grief, near-death experiences and symbolic death, the history of cremation and attitudes toward it across cultures, pet death and death on the Internet, new kinds of ecological burials, and cryonics. Douglas Davies is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for Death and Life Studies at Durham University, UK.
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