ISBN:
9781782386100
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (290 Seiten)
DDC:
306.9
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying
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Death Case studies Religious aspects
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Death Case studies Social aspects
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Funeral rites and ceremonies Case studies
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Liminality Case studies
Abstract:
Periods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality. Yet, many volumes on death in the social sciences and humanities do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these "ultimate ambiguities," assuming they can pose a threat to social relationships because of the disintegrating forces of death, but they are also crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life. Contributors explore death and liminality from an interdisciplinary perspective and present a global range of historical and contemporary case studies outlining emotional, cognitive, artistic, social, and political implications
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782386100
URL:
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