Davies

MORS BRITANNICA C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 819g
• ISBN-13: 9780199644971
• ISBN-10: 0199644977
• Artikelnr.: 47870715

Autorenporträt

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 links between anthropology and theology, with a special interest in how the human desire for meaning becomes a sense of salvation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Theoretical Perspectives
2: Beliefs and Valued Memorials
3: Ritual and Body Disposal
4: Christian and Secular Death Rites
5: Salvation, Folk Wisdom, and Spirituality
6: Grief, Media, and Social Emotions
7: Military, Sports, Celebrity deaths
8: Wayfaring mortality, Fear, and the Good Death
9: 09 Death-styles and Life-style
10: Woodland Burial
Conclusion
Bibliography