The Routledge handbook of death and the afterlife:

"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 to...

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Other Authors: Cann, Candi K. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business 2018
Series:Routledge handbooks in religion
Routledge handbooks in religion
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"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, and avatars; 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."--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 399 pages)
ISBN:9781134817344
1134817347
9781315545349
1315545349
9781134817412
113481741X
9781134817481
1134817487

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