Birth and Death: Studying Ritual, Embodied Practices and Spirituality at the Start and End of Life |
Autore | Wojtkowiak Joanna |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (158 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Religion & beliefs |
Soggetto non controllato |
priest
Ars moriendi sharing death death teacher African birth ritual ancestor worship art birth birth altar birthing justice ceremony child childbirth Chinese birth ritual contemporary art humanism indigenous birth ritual material culture mother nonreligion nonreligious pregnancy religion re-sacralization rite of passage ritual sacred secular secularity spirituality symbol traditional birth grief bereavement death pregnancy loss embodiment metaphor rituals cultural practices Africa memory making function of ritualized acts ritualization neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) new-born bereaved parents nurses parent support group existential infrastructural breaks sociology of repair life-cycle rituals funeral market maternity care tattoo body-modification identity self-construction Dimasa death rituals urban ritual performance personhood motherhood miscarriage stillbirth abortion ritualizing qualitative research The Netherlands |
ISBN | 3-0365-5416-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Birth and Death |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910619470203321 |
Wojtkowiak Joanna
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The wedding dress [[electronic resource] ] : meditations on word and life / / Fanny Howe |
Autore | Howe Fanny |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (182 p.) |
Disciplina | 811/.54 |
Soggetto topico |
Perplexity (Philosophy)
Motherhood Imagination Creative ability |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
art and literature bewilderment contemporary philosophy doubt existential faith and doubt faith and religion female authors gender issues imagination language literary criticism literary critics literary essays making art meditations memoir motherhood nonfiction essays nonfiction overcoming doubt poetry political perspective political thought power of language power of the mind race issues racism role of art social justice |
ISBN |
1-282-35971-1
9786612359712 0-520-93719-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Bewilderment -- Fairies -- Immanence -- White Lines -- The Contemporary Logos -- Incubus Of The Forlorn -- Purgatory & Other Places -- Catholic -- Work And Love -- After "Prologue" -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780636903321 |
Howe Fanny
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Will as commitment and resolve [[electronic resource] ] : an existential account of creativity, love, virtue, and happiness / / John Davenport |
Autore | Davenport John J. <1966-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiv, 706 p. ) |
Disciplina | 128/.3 |
Soggetto topico |
Will
Ethics Conduct of life |
Soggetto non controllato |
aristotle
existential philosophy plato |
ISBN |
0-8232-2572-0
0-8232-3589-0 0-8232-4686-8 1-282-69867-2 9786612698675 0-8232-3880-6 0-8232-2577-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: The Project of an Existential Theory of Personhood -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Heroic Will in Eastern and Western Perspectives -- 3. From Action Theory to Projective Motivation -- 4. The Erosiac Structure of Desire in Plato and Aristotle -- 5. Aristotelian Desires and the Problems of Egoism -- 6. Psychological Eudaimonism: A Reading of Aristotle -- 7. The Paradox of Eudaimonism: An Existential Critique -- 8. Contemporary Solutions to the Paradox and Their Problems -- 9. Divine and Human Creativity: From Plato to Levinas -- 10. Radical Evil and Projective Strength of Will -- 11. Scotus and Kant: The Moral Will and Its Limits -- 12. Existential Psychology and Intrinsic Motivation: Deci, Maslow, and Frankl -- 13. Caring, Aretaic Commitment, and Existential Resolve -- 14. An Existential Objectivist Account of What Is Worth Caring About -- Conclusion: The Danger of Willfulness Revisited -- Notes -- Glossary of Definitions, Technical Terms, and Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780973003321 |
Davenport John J. <1966->
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