03376oam 2200697I 450 991046541540332120200520144314.00-203-07274-X1-299-28002-11-135-10082-910.4324/9780203072745 (CKB)2560000000099306(EBL)1143828(OCoLC)830161038(SSID)ssj0000833066(PQKBManifestationID)11436131(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000833066(PQKBWorkID)10935660(PQKB)10519358(MiAaPQ)EBC1143828(Au-PeEL)EBL1143828(CaPaEBR)ebr10672652(CaONFJC)MIL459252(OCoLC)847627506(EXLCZ)99256000000009930620180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDo funerals matter? the purposes and practices of death rituals in global perspective /William G. HoyNew York, N.Y. :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (225 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-66205-2 0-415-66204-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Do Funerals Matter?: The Purposes and Practices of Death Rituals in Global Perspective; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Funerals-Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going; 2 More Treasured than Words: The Anchor of Significant Symbols; 3 Getting Everybody Together: The Anchor of Gathered Community; 4 Walk Out What You Can't Talk Out: The Anchor of Ritual Action; 5 Looking Back to Look Forward: The Anchor of Cultural Heritage; 6 Taking the Dead to the Party: The Anchor of the Body's Presence; 7 North American Quests to Personalize Funeral Rituals8 The Business of Funerals9 Clinical Perspectives on the Value of Funerals; 10 Farther Down the Road: Using Ritual in Grief Counseling; Epilogue; Glossary: What Does that Mean?; References; IndexDo Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals have been; and where, especially in the Western world, they are going. Death educators, researchers, counselors, clergy, funeral-service professionals, and others will appreciate the book's theory- and research-based approach to the ways in which different cultural groups memorialize their dead. They will also find clear clinical and practical applications in the author's exploration of tFuneral rites and ceremoniesBurialHuman remains (Archaeology)DeathSocial aspectsGroup identityElectronic books.Funeral rites and ceremonies.Burial.Human remains (Archaeology)DeathSocial aspects.Group identity.393/.9Hoy William G.940558MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465415403321Do funerals matter2121013UNINA