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Douglas J. Davies

Mors Britannica

Lifestyle & Death-Style in Britain Today

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A people's lifestyle is one thing, their death-style another. The proximity or distance between such styles says much about a society, not least in Britain today. Mors Britannica takes up this style-issue in a society where cultural changes involve distinctions between traditional religion, secularisation, and emergent forms of spirituality, all of which involve emotions, where fear, longing, and a sense of loss rise in waves when death marks the rootembodiment of our humanity. These world-orientations, evident in older and newer ritual practices, engage death in the hope and desire that love, relationships, community, and human identity be n… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-104001-6
  • EAN: 9780191040016
  • Produktnummer: 19557469
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 418 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'620 KB

Über den Autor


Douglas J. Davies is Professor in the Study of Religion at Durham and Director of the Centre for Death and Life Studies. He trained in both anthropology and theology and has taught the study of religion for many years both at Nottingham and Durham Universities. His specialist interests and many publications include work on death, funerary ritual, and afterlife beliefs, as well as the Mormon and Anglican religious traditions and theoretical questions of the linksbetween anthropology and theology, with a special interest in how the human desire for meaning becomes a sense of salvation.

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