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Davies, Douglas James.
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Death -- Social aspects.
Death -- Religious aspects.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Death in art.
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A brief history of d...
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A brief history of death / Douglas J. Davies.
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Davies, Douglas James.
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Subjects
Death -- Social aspects.
Death -- Religious aspects.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Death in art.
ISBN:
1405101822 (alk. paper)
9781405101820 (alk. paper)
1405101830 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405101837 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Blackwell brief histories of religion
Description:
xi, 184 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Contents:
pt. 1. Journey beyond. Gilgamesh ; Adam and Eve ; Death, sin and atonement ; Resurrection-transcendence ; Release-transcendence ; Self-transcendence ; Hope and faith ; To be or not to be ; Traditional futures ; The uneasy species ; Death our future ; Autobiographical history of death ; Methods of approach ; Words against death ; Myth again -- pt. 2. Parting's sweet sorrow. Relationships, death and destiny ; Family bonds ; Hell, life and work ; Secular ethics and loss ; Freud and Bowlby ; Grief-stages ; Fixing the unfixable ; Helplessness ; Aberbach and charisma ; World religions ; Identity and religions ; Identity's demise and death ; Adulthood-childhood, maturity and death of parents ; Moral-somatic links ; Spiritualism ; Departure -- pt. 3. Removing the dead. Souls ; Status and destiny ; Ritual change ; Resurrection ; Secular trends ; Changing times ; Default religion ; From respect to dignity ; Death-style and belief ; Cremated remains ; Space, cryogenics and computers.
pt. 4. Ecology, death and hope. Criminals, heretics, bodies and belief ; Dying at home ; Hospice ; Symbolic bodies ; American ways of death ; Ecology ; Hope springs eternal ; Forest ; Positive and negative dust ; Ethics and spirituality at large ; Death's paradigm shift ; Ecological immortality -- pt. 5. Art, literature and music. Variety ; Bible ; Dante ; Milton ; Secular strains ; Art ; Portraying the dead ; Religious fusion ; Hope -- pt. 6. Places of memory. Myth ; The dynamics of memorial sites ; Locating hope: the dynamics of memorial sites ; Place and hope ; How to speak of the dead? ; Location 1: graveyard and cemetery ; Hope 1: eternal, eschatological form of identity ; Location 2: cremation and remains ; Hope 2: internal, the retrospective fulfilment of identity ; Location 3: woodland burial ; Hope 3: natural, the ecological fulfilment of identity ; Memorial texts ; The National Memorial Arboretum ; Lifestyle - death-style -- pt. 7. Fear of death. A mythical form ; Hinduism, Buddhism ; Christianity ; Albert Schweitzer and C.S. Lewis ; Essential fear ; Plague ; Modern devastations ; Philosophical fears ; Psychology and fear of death ; Picasso ; Fears real and imagined ; Contemporary fears ; Imaginative fears ; Fear abolished -- pt. 8. Purposeful and useless death. Power of death ; Warfare ; Genocide ; Violence at heart ; Disasters ; Baby-death ; Suicide - euthanasia ; Offending deaths ; Illness and death ; The future of death ; Christian eternal life ; Death's margins ; Age and death ; Hopeless non-places ; 2020 time and vision ; The world's death.
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