Death, Ritual and Belief
The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites
Description:... Islam -- Books and words -- Chapter 8: Christianity and the death of Jesus -- Death, life and Jesus -- Early Christianity and graves -- Christianity and the death of Jesus -- Folk beliefs in Christian cultures -- Retrospective fulfilment of identity -- Theological concern -- Chapter 9: Near-death, symbolic death and rebirth -- Symbolic power of death -- Imagination, hope and survival -- Initiation rituals -- Spiritual rebirth in Christianity -- Shamanism -- Wounded healers -- Near-death experience -- Chapter 10: Somewhere to die -- Home deathbed -- Hospital bed -- Hospice -- Roadside deaths -- Battlefield memorials -- National Memorial Arboretum -- Locating death -- Age and place -- Chapter 11: Souls and the presence of the dead -- The nineteenth century -- Popular British views on reincarnation -- The dead in living memory -- Chapter 12: Pet and animal death -- The death of dogs and cats -- Human and animal remains -- Symbolic animals -- Surveying pet death, 1992 -- Animal souls -- Bereavement and pet death -- Animal grief -- Chapter 13: Robots, books, films and buildings -- Religious sources -- Media sources -- Television -- Music -- Hymns and music -- Sculpture -- Exhibition and art -- Poetic words against death -- Humane words against death -- Architecture of death -- Death studies -- Contemporary adaptation -- Chapter 14: Offending death, grief and religions -- Theory of offending death -- Sacrificial reversal -- Enforced deaths -- Death in religion -- Death and the birth of religion -- Leaders and charisma -- Some Christian movements -- Bahai religion -- Mormonism -- New religious movements and death -- Chapter 15: Secular death and life -- Dataism -- How many? -- Secular French rites -- Soviet ceremonial -- Shared secularity -- Postmodern individuals and death -- Negotiating individuality -- Body-philosophy -- Postmodernity and mortuary rites
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