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All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death.
In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and
although Western science has had a major impact on how people die,
it has taught us little about the way to die or to grieve. Many
whose work brings them into contact with the dying and the bereaved
from Western and other cultures are at a loss to know how to offer
appropriate and sensitive support. Death and Bereavement Across
Cultures 2nd Edition is a handbook which meets the needs of
doctors, nurses, social workers, hospital chaplains, counsellors
and volunteers caring for patients with life-threatening illness
and their families before and after bereavement. It is a practical
guide explaining the religious and other differences commonly met
with in multi-cultural societies when someone is dying or bereaved.
In doing so readers may be surprised to find how much we can learn
from other cultures about our own attitudes and assumptions about
death. Written by international experts in the field the book:
Describes the rituals and beliefs of major world religions;
Explains their psychological and historical context; Shows how
customs are changed by contact with the West; Considers the
implications for the future The second edition includes new
chapters that: explore how members of the health care professions
perform roles formerly conducted by priests and shamans can cross
the cultural gaps between different cultures and religions;
consider the relevance of attitudes and assumptions about death for
our understanding of religious and nationalist extremism and its
consequences; discuss the Buddhist, Islamic and Christian ways of
death. Death raises questions which science cannot answer. Whatever
our personal beliefs we can all gain from learning how others view
these ultimate problems. This book explores the richness of
mourning traditions around the world with the aim of increasing the
sensitivity and understanding which we all bring to the issue of
death and bereavement.
Compiled from the original documents of Sir William Young who
headed a commission to the island after it was annexed to Britain
in 1763, this history shows an independent people in their struggle
against the Red Charaibs and then against the British settlers.
All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death.
In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and
although Western science has had a major impact on how people die,
it has taught us little about the way to die or to grieve. Many
whose work brings them into contact with the dying and the bereaved
from Western and other cultures are at a loss to know how to offer
appropriate and sensitive support. Death and Bereavement Across
Cultures 2nd Edition is a handbook which meets the needs of
doctors, nurses, social workers, hospital chaplains, counsellors
and volunteers caring for patients with life-threatening illness
and their families before and after bereavement. It is a practical
guide explaining the religious and other differences commonly met
with in multi-cultural societies when someone is dying or bereaved.
In doing so readers may be surprised to find how much we can learn
from other cultures about our own attitudes and assumptions about
death. Written by international experts in the field the book:
Describes the rituals and beliefs of major world religions;
Explains their psychological and historical context; Shows how
customs are changed by contact with the West; Considers the
implications for the future The second edition includes new
chapters that: explore how members of the health care professions
perform roles formerly conducted by priests and shamans can cross
the cultural gaps between different cultures and religions;
consider the relevance of attitudes and assumptions about death for
our understanding of religious and nationalist extremism and its
consequences; discuss the Buddhist, Islamic and Christian ways of
death. Death raises questions which science cannot answer. Whatever
our personal beliefs we can all gain from learning how others view
these ultimate problems. This book explores the richness of
mourning traditions around the world with the aim of increasing the
sensitivity and understanding which we all bring to the issue of
death and bereavement.
Compiled from the original documents of Sir William Young who
headed a commission to the island after it was annexed to Britain
in 1763, this history shows an independent people in their struggle
against the Red Charaibs and then against the British settlers.
William Young Sellar (1825 1890) was a scholar of Latin poetry.
First published in 1880, this is a lively account of poetry in the
Roman Republic, which was acclaimed as the purest art form of its
time. Exploring the work of a range of poets, from Andronicus,
Lucilius and others in the second century BCE, through to Lucretius
and Catullus in the first century BCE, Sellar shows how poems were
characterised by political, religious, and social factors, as well
as by the personalities of the poets themselves. Looking at genres
from tragedy to comedy to satire, he also considers the role of
Greek literature in the shaping of Latin poetry, and how the poets
influenced each other's work. The second edition of a volume
originally published in 1863, this version features an updated
account of the poems of Lucilius and Catullus, and two new chapters
on Roman comedy.
William Young Sellar (1825 1890) was a classical scholar who
specialised in the study of Roman poetry. After graduating from
Balliol College, Oxford, in 1843 he held assistant professorships
in various universities before being appointed Professor of
Humanities at Edinburgh University in 1863, a post which he held
until his death. This volume, first published posthumously in 1891,
discusses the forms and development of Roman poetry in the reign of
Augustus (43 BCE 14 CE); it was intended as a companion to his 1877
book on Virgil, also reissued in this series. Sellar provides a
detailed discussion of Horace's many literary styles in their
historical context, discusses the development of Roman elegy from
early Greek forms, and analyses the works of Ovid in detail.
Sellar's meticulous interpretations led to this volume becoming the
standard authority on the development of Roman poetry in the early
Roman Empire.
This work by William Young Sellar (1825 1890) was first published
in 1877, when Sellar was well established as Professor of Humanity
at the University of Edinburgh. It is a companion volume to his
equally acclaimed Roman Poets of the Republic and the later
continuation Horace and the Elegaic Poets, all three of which
remain of value to scholars today. The book's ten chapters give an
overview of the Augustan Age and Virgil's life and work in context
(chapters 1-3), then moving to the Eclogues (chapter 4) and the
Georgics (chapters 5-7), before devoting the remaining chapters to
the Aeneid. A detailed table of contents allows the reader to
navigate between analysis of the historical context, Virgil's
literary forms and motives, and general literary interpretation.
This work is both a meticulous work of scholarship, and, as the
affectionate dedication shows, a tribute to the author's passion
for his subject.
Rewire the brain processes that cause obsessions and
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These 228 letters by Saint Ignatius create an illuminating
self-portrait.
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