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Mors Britannica : lifestyle and death-style in Britain today
- Title
- Mors Britannica : lifestyle and death-style in Britain today / Douglas J. Davies.
- Author
- Davies, Douglas J. (Douglas James)
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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- Description
- vi, 428 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.0Davies 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-37
- ISBN
- 9780199644971
- 0199644977
- OCLC
- 929539799
- Author
- Davies, Douglas J. (Douglas James), author.
- Title
- Mors Britannica : lifestyle and death-style in Britain today / Douglas J. Davies.
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-37