Natural burial : traditional-secular spiritualities and funeral innovation / / Douglas Davies and Hannah Rumble

• Autore: Davies Douglas James
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Continuum, , [2012]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 393/.10947
• Soggetto topico: Funeral rites and ceremonies - England - Cambridgeshire; Natural burial - England - Cambridgeshire
• Persona (resp. second.): RumbleHannah
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Funeral forms, life-styles, and death-styles -- Varied sites and changing rites -- Options and motivations : what people say -- Self-gift, soil, and society -- Spirituality, theology, self, and sense of place.
• Sommario/riassunto: "From the 1990s the British developed an interest in natural burial, also known as woodland, green, or ecological burial. Natural burial constitutes part of a long, historical legacy for British funeral innovation; from Victorian cemetery monuments and garden cemeteries through the birth and rise of cremation to the many things done with cremated remains. The book sets natural burial in the context of such creative dealing with death, grief, mourning, and the celebration of life. Themes from sociology and anthropology combine with psychological issues and theological ideas to show how human emotions take shape and help people consider their own death whilst also dealing with the death of those they love. The authors explore the variety of motivations for people to engage with natural burial and its popular appeal, using interviews with people having a relationship with one natural burial site created by the Church of England but open to all. They illustrate people's understandings of life and death in the sacred, secular and mixed worlds of modern Britain."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Titolo autorizzato: Natural burial
• ISBN: 1-4725-4915-5; 1-4411-6958-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812130703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II