(Inter)Facing Death
Life in Global Uncertainty
In modern times, death is understood to have undergone a transformation not unlike religion. Whereas in the past it was out in the open, it now resides mostly in specialized spaces of sequestration-funeral homes, hospitals and other medical facilities. A mainstay in so-called traditional societies in the form of ritual practices, death was usually messy but meaningful, with the questions of what happens to the dead or where they go lying at the heart of traditional culture and religion. In modernity, however, we are said to have effectively sanitized it, embalmed it and packaged it-but it seems that death is back. In the current era marked by…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-315-44674-5
- EAN: 9781315446745
- Produktnummer: 31765500
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 174 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'257 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Sam Han is Senior Lecturer of Anthropology and Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-Secular Modernity (2017) and Digital Culture and Religion in Asia (2018) (with Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir), and other works.
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