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Death affects all aspects of life, it touches our emotions and
influences our identity. Presenting a kaleidoscope of informative
views of death, dying and human response, this book reveals how
different disciplines contribute to understanding the theme of
death. Drawing together new and established scholars, this is the
first book among the studies of emotion that focuses on issues
surrounding death, and the first among death studies which focuses
on the issue of emotion. Themes explored include: themes of grief
in the ties that bind the living and the dead, funerals, public
memorials and the art of consolation, obituaries and issues of war
and death-row, use of the internet in dying and grieving, what
people do with cremated remains, new rituals of spiritual care in
medical contexts, themes bounded and expressed through music, and
more.
Death affects all aspects of life, it touches our emotions and
influences our identity. Presenting a kaleidoscope of informative
views of death, dying and human response, this book reveals how
different disciplines contribute to understanding the theme of
death. Drawing together new and established scholars, this is the
first book among the studies of emotion that focuses on issues
surrounding death, and the first among death studies which focuses
on the issue of emotion. Themes explored include: themes of grief
in the ties that bind the living and the dead, funerals, public
memorials and the art of consolation, obituaries and issues of war
and death-row, use of the internet in dying and grieving, what
people do with cremated remains, new rituals of spiritual care in
medical contexts, themes bounded and expressed through music, and
more.
"Cultural Blending in Korean Death Rites" examines the cultural
encounter of Confucianism and Christianity with particular
reference to death rites in Korea. As its overarching interpretive
framework, this book employs the idea of the 'total social
phenomenon', a concept first introduced by the French
anthropologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950).
From the perspective of the total social phenomenon, this book
utilizes a combination of theological, historical, sociological and
anthropological approaches, and explores Korean death rites by
classifying them into three categories: ritual "before" death
(Bible copying), ritual "at" death (funerary rites), and ritual
"after" death (ancestral ritual). It focuses on Christian practices
as they epitomize the complex interplay of Confucianism and
Christianity. By drawing on a total social phenomenon approach to
the empirical case of Korean death rites, Chang-Won Park
contributes to the advancement of theory and method in religious
studies.
Modernist troublemaker in the 1890s, Nobel Prize winner in 1920,
and indefensible Nazi sympathiser in the 1930s and 40s, Knut Hamsun
continues to provoke condemnation, apologia and critical confusion.
Informed by the works of Jacques Derrida and Sigmund Freud,
Troubling Legacies analyses the heterogeneous and conflicted
legacies of the enigmatic European writer, Hamsun. Moving through
different phases of his life, this study emphasises the dislocated
nature of Hamsun's works and the diverse and conflicting responses
his fiction elicited from such figures as Franz Kafka, Katherine
Mansfield, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger. Close readings of
the major novels Hunger, Mysteries, Pan and Growth of the Soil are
presented alongside lesser known writings, including his early
polemic on America, his turn-of-the-century travelogue through
Russia, his fascist polemics of the 1930s and 40s, and his
controversial post-war testimony, On Overgrown Paths. Troubling
Legacies links past debates with contemporary literary theory and
deconstruction in a way that contributes to critical thinking about
political responsibility.
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