LEADER 05150nam 2200733z 450 001 9910145734003321 005 20231212193850.0 010 $a1-281-31095-6 010 $a9786611310950 010 $a0-470-77619-6 010 $a0-470-77704-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000415768 035 $a(EBL)350853 035 $a(OCoLC)214281258 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000114779 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11117258 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000114779 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10125737 035 $a(PQKB)11585702 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC350853 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4956757 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4956757 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL131095 035 $a(OCoLC)1027203538 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000415768 100 $a20040519d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA brief history of death /$fDouglas J. Davies 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMalden, Mass.$cBlackwell Pub.$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (204 p.) 225 0 $6880-03$aBlackwell brief histories of religion 311 $a1-4051-0183-0 311 $a1-4051-0182-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 174-179) and index. 327 $aA Brief History of Death; Contents; List of plates (plates fall between pp. 88-89); Preface; 1 Journey Beyond; Gilgamesh; Adam and Eve; Death, Sin and Atonement; Resurrection-Transcendence; Release-Transcendence; Self-Transcendence; Hope and Faith; To Be or Not To Be; Traditional Futures; The Uneasy Species; Death Our Future; Autobiographical History of Death; Methods of Approach; Words Against Death; Myth Again; 2 Parting's Sweet Sorrow; Relationships, Death and Destiny; Family Bonds; Hell, Life and Work; Secular Ethics and Loss; Freud and Bowlby; Grief-Stages; Fixing the Unfixable 327 $aHelplessnessAberbach and Charisma; World Religions; Identity and Religions; Identity's Demise and Death; Adulthood-Childhood, Maturity and Death of Parents; Moral-Somatic Links; Spiritualism; Departure; 3 Removing the Dead; Souls; Status and Destiny; Ritual Change; Resurrection; Secular Trends; Changing Times; Default Religion; From Respect to Dignity; Death-Style and Belief; Cremated Remains; Space, Cryogenics and Computers; 4 Ecology, Death and Hope; Criminals, Heretics, Bodies and Belief; Dying at Home; Hospice; Symbolic Bodies; American Ways of Death; Ecology; Hope Springs Eternal; Forest 327 $aPositive and Negative DustEthics and Spirituality at Large; Death's Paradigm Shift; Ecological Immortality; 5 Art, Literature and Music; Variety; Bible; Dante; Milton; Secular Strains; Art; Portraying the Dead; Religious Fusion; Hope; 6 Places of Memory; Myth; The Dynamics of Memorial Sites; Locating Hope: the Dynamics of Memorial Sites; Place and Hope; How to Speak of the Dead?; Location 1: Graveyard and Cemetery; Hope1: Eternal, Eschatological Form of Identity; Location 2: Cremation and Remains; Hope 2: Internal, the Retrospective Fulfilment of Identity; Location 3: Woodland Burial 327 $aHope 3: Natural, the Ecological Fulfilment of IdentityMemorial Texts; The National Memorial Arboretum; Lifestyle - Death-Style; 7 Fear of Death; A Mythical Form; Hinduism, Buddhism; Christianity; Albert Schweitzer and C. S. Lewis; Essential Fear; Plague; Modern Devastations; Philosophical Fears; Psychology and Fear of Death; Picasso; Fears Real and Imagined; Contemporary Fears; Imaginative Fears; Fear Abolished; 8 Purposeful and Useless Death; Power of Death; Warfare; Genocide; Violence at Heart; Disasters; Baby-Death; Suicide - Euthanasia; Offending Deaths; Illness and Death 327 $aThe Future of DeathChristian Eternal Life; Death's Margins; Age and Death; Hopeless Non-Places; 2020 Time and Vision; The World's Death; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThe act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary enormously and shed a fascinating light on the cultures of which they are a part. In this brief and lively history, Douglas Davies - internationally acknowledged as one of the leading experts in this field - tackles some of the most significant aspects of death and weaves them into a compelling story about our changing attitudes to dying. Offers a fascinating examination of this subject which is of enduring interest in every culture in the world Considers the profound influence death has had on subjects ranging from ph 410 0$aBlackwell brief histories of religion. 606 $6880-04/$1$aDeath$xSocial aspects 606 $6880-05/$1$aDeath$xReligious aspects 606 $6880-06/$1$aDeath$xPsychological aspects 606 $6880-07/$1$aDeath in art 615 0$aDeath$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aDeath$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aDeath$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aDeath in art 676 $a291.23 676 $a306.9 700 $aDavies$b Douglas James$0863121 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910145734003321 996 $aA brief history of death$93569926 997 $aUNINA