A brief history of death:
"Douglas J. Davies, internationally acknowledged as one of the leading experts in this field, tackles some of the most significant aspects of death - the act of dying, grieving, burial, artistic interpretations of death, places of memory, the fear of death, and disasters/tragedies - and weaves...
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Malden, MA [u.a.]
Blackwell
2005
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| Series: | Blackwell brief histories of religion
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| Summary: | "Douglas J. Davies, internationally acknowledged as one of the leading experts in this field, tackles some of the most significant aspects of death - the act of dying, grieving, burial, artistic interpretations of death, places of memory, the fear of death, and disasters/tragedies - and weaves them into a story about our changing attitudes to dying."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-179) and index |
| Physical Description: | xi, 184 S. Ill. 19 cm |
| ISBN: | 1405101822 1405101830 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of plates (plates fall between pp. 88 and 89) ix
Preface x
1 Journey Beyond 1
Gilgamesh 2
Adam and Eve 4
Death. Sin and Atonement 6
Resurrection Transcendence 6
Release Transcendence 8
Self Transcendence 8
Hope and Faith 10
To Be or Not To Be 13
Traditional Futures 14
The Uneasy Species 14
Death Our Future 15
Autobiographical History of Death 15
Methods of Approach 17
Words Against Death 20
Myth Again 20
. —— ¦ Contents v
2 Parting s Sweet Sorrow 24
Relationships, Death and Destiny 25
Family Bonds 27
Hell, Life and Work 28
Secular Ethics and Loss 29
Freud and Bowlby 30
Grief Stages 31
Fixing the Unfixable 32
Helplessness 33
Aberbach and Charisma 33
World Religions 34
Identity and Religions 36
Identity s Demise and Death 38
Adulthood Childhood, Maturity and Death of Parents 39
Moral Somatic Links 43
Spiritualism 44
Departure 47
3 Removing the Dead 48
Souls 50
Status and Destiny 51
Ritual Change 52
Resurrection 54
Secular Trends 56
Changing Times 57
Default Religion 57
From Respect to Dignity 60
Death Style and Belief 62
Cremated Remains 62
Space, Cryogenics and Computers 66
4 Ecology, Death and Hope 68
Criminals, Heretics, Bodies and Belief 68
Dying at Home 70
Hospice 71
Symbolic Bodies 73
vi Contents ———
American Ways of Death 75
Ecology 77
Hope Springs Eternal 78
Forest 81
Positive and Negative Dust 82
Ethics and Spirituality at Large 84
Death s Paradigm Shift 85
Ecological Immortality 86
5 Art, Literature and Music 89
Variety 90
Bible 91
Dante 93
Milton 94
Secular Strains 96
Art 98
Portraying the Dead 101
Religious Fusion 105
Hope 110
6 Places of Memory 111
Myth 111
The Dynamics of Memorial Sites 114
Locating Hope: the Dynamics of Memorial Sites 115
Place and Hope 116
How to Speak of the Dead? 117
Location 1: Graveyard and Cemetery 118
Hope 1: Eternal, Eschatological Form of Identity 118
Location 2: Cremation and Remains 120
Hope 2: Internal, the Retrospective Fulfilment of Identity 122
Location 3: Woodland Burial 125
Hope 3: Natural, the Ecological Fulfilment of Identity 126
Memorial Texts 127
The National Memorial Arboretum 128
Lifestyle Death Style 129
Contents vii
7 Fear of Death 131
A Mythical Form 132
Hinduism, Buddhism 132
Christianity 133
Albert Schweitzer and C. S. Lewis 134
Essential Fear 137
Plague 137
Modern Devastations 138
Philosophical Fears 140
Psychology and Fear of Death 142
Picasso 143
Fears Real and Imagined 144
Contemporary Fears 145
Imaginative Fears 146
Fear Abolished 147
8 Purposeful and Useless Death 150
Power of Death 152
Warfare 152
Genocide 154
Violence at Heart 156
Disasters 156
Baby Death 159
Suicide Euthanasia 160
Offending Deaths 162
Illness and Death 165
The Future of Death 166
Christian Eternal Life 166
Death s Margins 169
Age and Death 169
Hopeless Non Places 170
2020 Time and Vision 171
The World s Death 172
Bibliography 174
Index 180
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