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Death, ritual, and belief : the rhetoric of funerary rites
- Title
- Death, ritual, and belief : the rhetoric of funerary rites / Douglas Davies.
- Author
- Davies, Douglas J. (Douglas James)
- Publication
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
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Details
- Description
- vi, 303 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Comparative studies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Interpreting death rites -- Coping with corpses: impurity, fertility and fear -- Theories of grief -- Violence, sacrifice and conquest -- Eastern destiny and death -- Ancestors, cemeteries and local identity -- Jewish and Islamic destinies -- Christianity and the death of Jesus -- Near-death, symbolic death and rebirth -- Somewhere to die -- Souls and the presence of the dead -- Pet and animal death -- Robots, books, films and buildings -- Offending death, grief and religions -- Secular death and life.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-1146
- ISBN
- 9781474250962
- 1474250963
- 9781474250955
- 1474250955
- LCCN
- 2017006963
- OCLC
- 1001287205
- Author
- Davies, Douglas J. (Douglas James), author.
- Title
- Death, ritual, and belief : the rhetoric of funerary rites / Douglas Davies.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
- Edition
- Third Edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-1146