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Mors Britannica

- Lifestyle & Death-Style in Britain Today
Af: Douglas J. Davies Engelsk Hardback

Mors Britannica

- Lifestyle & Death-Style in Britain Today
Af: Douglas J. Davies Engelsk Hardback
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A people''s lifestyle is one thing, their death-style another. The proximity or distance between such styles says much about a society, not least in Britain today. Mors Britannica takes up this style-issue in a society where cultural changes involve distinctions between traditional religion, secularisation, and emergent forms of spirituality, all of which involve emotions, where fear, longing, and a sense of loss rise in waves when death marks the root embodiment of our humanity. These world-orientations, evident in older and newer ritual practices, engage death in the hope and desire that love, relationships, community, and human identity be not rendered meaningless. Yet both emotions and ritual have an uneasiness to them because ''death'' is a slippery topic as the twenty-first century gets under way in Britain.In this work, Douglas J. Davies draws from a largely anthropological-sociological perspective, with consideration of history, literature, philosophy, psychology, and theology, to provide a window into British life and insights into the foundation links between individuals and society, across the spectrum of traditionally religious views through to humanist and secular alternatives. He considers memorial sites (from churchyards to roadside memorials); forms of corporeal disposal (from cremation to composting); and death rites in a range of religious and secular traditions.
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A people''s lifestyle is one thing, their death-style another. The proximity or distance between such styles says much about a society, not least in Britain today. Mors Britannica takes up this style-issue in a society where cultural changes involve distinctions between traditional religion, secularisation, and emergent forms of spirituality, all of which involve emotions, where fear, longing, and a sense of loss rise in waves when death marks the root embodiment of our humanity. These world-orientations, evident in older and newer ritual practices, engage death in the hope and desire that love, relationships, community, and human identity be not rendered meaningless. Yet both emotions and ritual have an uneasiness to them because ''death'' is a slippery topic as the twenty-first century gets under way in Britain.In this work, Douglas J. Davies draws from a largely anthropological-sociological perspective, with consideration of history, literature, philosophy, psychology, and theology, to provide a window into British life and insights into the foundation links between individuals and society, across the spectrum of traditionally religious views through to humanist and secular alternatives. He considers memorial sites (from churchyards to roadside memorials); forms of corporeal disposal (from cremation to composting); and death rites in a range of religious and secular traditions.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 438
ISBN-13: 9780199644971
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0199644977
Kategori: Social- & Kulturantropologi
Udg. Dato: 12 nov 2015
Længde: 31mm
Bredde: 242mm
Højde: 168mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 12 nov 2015
Forfatter(e): Douglas J. Davies
Forfatter(e) Douglas J. Davies

Kategori Social- & Kulturantropologi

ISBN-13 9780199644971

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 438

Udgave

Længde 31mm

Bredde 242mm

Højde 168mm

Udg. Dato 12 nov 2015

Oplagsdato 12 nov 2015

Forlag Oxford University Press

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