Do funerals matter? the purposes and practices of death rituals in global perspective
Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals have been; and where, especially in the Western world, they are going. Death educators, researchers, co...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
Routledge
2013.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798335506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Do Funerals Matter?: The Purposes and Practices of Death Rituals in Global Perspective; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Funerals-Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going; 2 More Treasured than Words: The Anchor of Significant Symbols; 3 Getting Everybody Together: The Anchor of Gathered Community; 4 Walk Out What You Can't Talk Out: The Anchor of Ritual Action; 5 Looking Back to Look Forward: The Anchor of Cultural Heritage; 6 Taking the Dead to the Party: The Anchor of the Body's Presence; 7 North American Quests to Personalize Funeral Rituals
- 8 The Business of Funerals9 Clinical Perspectives on the Value of Funerals; 10 Farther Down the Road: Using Ritual in Grief Counseling; Epilogue; Glossary: What Does that Mean?; References; Index
