ISBN:
1299415970
,
9781299415973
,
9781453900673
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 182 p)
,
ill., maps
Series Statement:
Toronto studies in religion vol. 30
Parallel Title:
Print version Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased : From Corpse to Concept
DDC:
393
Keywords:
Mourning customs
;
Human body Social aspects
;
Human body Symbolic aspects
;
Anthropology of religion
;
Religion and culture
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Technical Notes""; ""Illustrations""; ""Part One""; ""Hanging Out with Dead People""; ""Disposal of Dead Bodies: A Cultural Phenomenon""; ""Examples and evidence""; ""Ritualized Disposal of Corpses""; ""Widespread cultural behaviors""; ""Ritualized behavior""; ""Archaeological evidence""; ""Ethnographic evidence""; ""The Religious Context""; ""General evidence""; ""What Buddhists say, is not what Buddhists do""; ""Summary""; ""Manufacturing Buddhism""; ""The Generation of a World Religion""; ""Material Culture and Mistaken Identities""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Are Religious Experts Really That""""Different from the Laity?""; ""Summary""; ""Part Two""; ""Lies, Damn Lies, and Buddhist Texts""; ""Bones, Stones, and Schopen�s Monks""; ""The Myth of the Mahayana""; ""To view South Asian Buddhism with Chinese eyes""; ""Ghosts, Buddhist Gods, and Globalization""; ""The Histories of Buddhism""; ""Summary""; ""Stupa, Relic, and Hungry Ghost""; ""When One Burial Simply Will Not Do""; ""The marginalized nun as an instigator for religious efficacy""; ""Selling the Dharma""; ""(and Rolling It through Asia)""; ""Relics Recapitulate Rituals""; ""Summary""
Description / Table of Contents:
""The Domestication of Living Buddhist Traditions""""Buddhalogical Incorrectness""; ""Discussion and Possible Conclusions""; ""(from the History of Buddhism)""; ""Summary""; ""Part Three""; ""When Meaning Doesn�t Matter Anymore""; ""Symbolic Theories""; ""Symbolism: When Representations Collide""; ""Functional Theories""; ""Why are mortuary rituals social behaviors?""; ""Emotional Theories""; ""The Evolution of the Social Mind""; ""Practical Theories""; ""Problems""; ""Why these theories don�t work""; ""Summary""; ""Evolutionary Disgust""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Question: Why would the disposal of dead bodies be adaptive?""""Are Dead Bodies Dangerous?""; ""Does mortuary behavior remove the threat of disease?""; ""Evidence to the contrary""; ""The Smell of Death""; ""The Biology of Pollution and the Behavior of Disgust""; ""Summary""; ""Part Four""; ""Corpse, Concept, and Contagion Triggers""; ""Experiments and Correlations""; ""Subjects.""; ""Materials.""; ""The vignettes were as follows:""; ""Procedure.""; ""Vignette Analysis 1""; ""Questions and systems""; ""System 1 � Animacy system""; ""System 2 - Predation/HADD system""
Description / Table of Contents:
""System 3 � Intuitive psychology system (Theory of Mind)""""System 4 � Person-file system""; ""System 5 � Contagion-avoidance system""; ""Vignette Analysis 2""; ""Discussion""; ""Examples""; ""Vignette No. 5""; ""Why do psychotics respond differently to dead bodies?""; ""Some problems with the P/TM scale""; ""Explanations""; ""The normal population""; ""Summary""; ""Memes, Genes, and Dead Machines""; ""General Discussion""; ""Introduction""; ""The Mental Culture of Dead Agents""; ""A. High Psychoticism/Tough-mindedness scores""; ""B. Low Psychoticism/Tough-mindedness scores""
Description / Table of Contents:
""C. Normal population (middle of continuum)""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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