Emotion, Identity and Death : Mortality Across Disciplines


Douglas. Davies
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2012.
Omfang
1 online resource (244 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction: Emotion, Identity and Death; 1 The Postmodern Obituary: Why Honesty Matters; 2 Chronic Illness, Awareness of Death, and the Ambiguity of Peer Identification; 3 Nationalization and Mediatized Ritualization: The Broadcast Farewell of Fadime Sahindal; 4 Wiring Death: Dying, Grieving and Remembering on the Internet; 5 Individuals and Relationships: On the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Presence; 8 Seeing Differently: Place, Art, and Consolation; 9 'Sacramentality' and Identity Transformation: Deathbed Rituals in Dutch Spiritual Care. - 10 Every Funeral Unique in (Y)our Way! Professionals Propagating Cremation Rituals11 Designing a Place for Goodbye: The Architecture of Crematoria in the Netherlands; 12 New Identity of All Souls' Day Celebrations in the Netherlands: Extra-Ecclesiastic Commemoration of the Dead, Art, and Religiosity; 13 A Dream of Immortality: Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth); 14 De morte transire ad vitam? Emotion and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Requiem Compositions; 15 War without Death: America's Ingenious Plan to Defeat Enemies without Bloodshed; Index. - Death affects all aspects of life, it touches our emotions and influences our identity. Presenting a kaleidoscope of informative views of death, dying and human response, this book reveals how different disciplines contribute to understanding the theme of death. Drawing together new and established scholars, this is the first book among the studies of emotion that focuses on issues surrounding death, and the first among death studies which focuses on the issue of emotion.
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9781409424147

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