Cann The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-134-81734-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Handbooks in Religion

This Handbook traces the history of the changing notion of what it means to die and examines the many constructions of afterlife in literature, text, ritual, and material culture throughout time. The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject. Comprising twenty-nine chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into three parts and covers the following important themes:

The study of dying, death, and grief

Disposal of the dead: past, present, and future

Representations of death: narratives and rhetoric

Youth meets death: a juxtaposition

Questionable deaths and afterlives: suicide, ghosts, andavatars

Material corpses and imagined afterlives around the world

Within these sections, central issues, debates, and problems are examined, including: the world of death and dying from various cultural viewpoints and timeframes, cultural and social constructions of the definition of death, disposal practices, and views of the afterlife.

The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cann, Candi K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: The Study of Dying, Death and Grief: An Overview
Chapter 1: Introduction by Candi K. Cann
Chapter 2: State of the Field of Death in the United States by George E. Dickinson
Chapter 3: Brain Death and the Politics of Religion by Donald Joralemon
Chapter 4: Understanding Grief: Theoretical Perspectives by Kenneth J. Doka
Part II: Disposal of the Dead: Past, Present and Future
Chapter 5: Symbolizing Imperial Affiliation in Death: Case Studies from the Inka Empire (AD 1400-1532) by Colleen Zori
Chapter 6: The Romanian Orthodox Church and Issues of Cremation by Marius Rotar
Chapter 7: Reframing Sites of the Dead in Brazil by Renato Cymbalista & Aline Silva Santos
Chapter 8: Stand By Me: The Fear of Solitary Death and the Need for Social Bonds in Contemporary Japan by Chikako Ozawa-de-Silva
Chapter 9: Politics of Death and Mortuary Rituals in Trinidadian Hinduism by Priyanka Ramlakhan
Chapter 10: The Right to be Dead: Designing Future Cemeteries by Jakob Borrits Sabra & John Troyer
Part III: Representations of Death: Narratives and Rhetoric
Chapter 11: Post-Mortem (2010): Saint Salvador Allende and Historical Autopsy by Moisés Park
Chapter 12: Mourning Deaths and Constructing Afterlives in the Red Army at War by Steven G. Jug
Chapter 13: Corpses That Preach: Óscar Romero and the Martyred Priests of El Salvador by Mandy Rodgers-Gates
Chapter 14: Photographing Human Finitude: Philosophical Reflections on Photographs of Death by Mathew A. Crawford
Chapter 15: De Imago to Word: The Exile of the Dead from Parish Symbolism in Reformation England by Lacy K. Crocker Papadakis
Part IV: Youth Meets Death: A Juxtaposition
Chapter 16: The Comprehension of Death and Afterlife in Children by Ramiro Tau
Chapter 17: The Effects of Parental Death on Religiosity within an American Context by Renae Wilkinson
Chapter 18: Ashes to Ashes: Continuing Bonds in Young Adulthood in the Netherlands by Renske Visser
Part V: Questionable Deaths and Afterlives: Suicide, Ghosts & Avatars
Chapter 19: Exeunt: The Question of Suicide at the O

Über Autor(innen)

Candi K. Cann is an Associate Professor of Religion in the Honors College at Baylor University, USA.