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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Davies, Douglas. Death, Ritual, and Belief : The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites. London : Bloomsbury Publishing UK, ©2002 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Douglas Davies |
ISBN: | 9781441112798 1441112790 |
OCLC Number: | 1024277495 |
Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction1 Interpreting death rites2 Coping with corpses: impurity, fertility and fear3 Theories of grief4 Sacrifice, violence and conquest5 Eastern destiny and death6 Ancestors cemeteries and local identities7 Jewish and Islamic destinies8 Christianity and Offending Death9 Symbolic death and rebirth10 Somewhere to die11 Souls and the presence of the dead12 Pet and animal death13 Book, film and building14 Death, and the birth of religions15 Secular death and life |
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"Professor Douglas Davies' perceptive and thought-provoking book... provides a rich framework in which to consider the perennial questions of the human response to death. From this book, the fruit of wide-ranging research and reading, it is clear that Professor Davies has established himself as one of the leading writers in an increasingly important field." --Geoffrey Rowell, The Tablet "This updated and much enlarged book contains fascinating information and discussion about the many, varied issues nestling under the heading of 'death studies'. It would make an excellent textbook." --Modern Believing, July 2003 Read more...

