Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss
Grief and Consolation in Space and Time
Human beings are grieving animals. 'Consolation', or an attempt to assuage grief, is an age-old response to loss which has various expressions in different cultural contexts. Over the past century, consolation has dropped off the West's cultural radar. The contributions to this volume highlight this neglect of consolation in popular and academic discourses and explore the usefulness of the concept of consolation for analysing spatio-temporal constellations. Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss brings together scholars from geography, philosophy, history, anthropology and religious studies. The chapters use spatial and conceptual mappings of…
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Weitere Autoren: Maddrell, Avril (Hrsg.) / Venbrux, Eric (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-429-79235-9
- EAN: 9780429792359
- Produktnummer: 29180718
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 222 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'067 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 13 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 9 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 4 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Christoph Jedan is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.Avril Maddrell is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Reading, UK. Eric Venbrux is Professor of Comparative Religion and Director of the Centre for Thanatology at Radboud University, the Netherlands.
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