Death, Ritual, and Belief
Describing a variety of funeral ritual, from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures cope not only with corpses but also create an added value for living through the growth of afterlife beliefs. The key theme of the book is the rhetoric of death -- the way cultures use the most potent weapon of words to bring new power to life. Human identity and its transformation through mortuary rites is explored through the mummies of Chile and Egypt; African sacrificial deaths; Indian cremations; immigrant cemeteries in the USA; ancestor rites in Eastern religions and Mormonism; and the freezing of the dead in cryoni…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4411-4151-4
- EAN: 9781441141514
- Produktnummer: 17018364
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 15'949 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Douglas Davies is Professor in the Study of Religion and Director of the Centre for Death and Life Studies at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Natural Burial (2012), The Theology of Death (2008) and A Brief History of Death (2004). He is also the editor, along with Lewis Mates, of The Encyclopedia of Cremation (2005). Professor Davies is a Fellow of the British Academy, as well as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Learned Society of Wales.
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