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Death, Ritual and Belief - The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
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Death, Ritual and Belief - The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
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Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many
important issues related to death and dying, from a religious
studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using
the motif of 'words against death' it depicts human responses to
grief by surveying the many ways in which people have not let death
have the last word, not simply in terms of funeral rites but also
in memorials, graves, and in ideas of ancestors, souls, gods,
reincarnation and resurrection, whether in the great religious
traditions of the world or in more local customs. He also examines
bereavement and grief, experiences of the presence of dead,
near-death experiences, pet-death and the symbolic death played out
in religious rites. Updated chapters have taken into account new
research and include additional topics in this new edition, notably
assisted dying, terrorism, green burial, material culture, death
online, and the emergence of Death Studies as a distinctive field.
Case studies range from Anders Breivik in Norway, to the Princess
of Wales, and to the Rapture in the USA. A new perspective is also
brought to his account of grief theories. Providing an introduction
to key authors and authorities on death beliefs, bereavement, grief
and ritual-symbolism, Death, Ritual and Belief is an authoritative
guide to the perspectives of major religious and secular
worldviews.
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