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Titolo: | Dying and death in 18th-21st century Europe . Volume 2 / / edited by Marius Rotar, Adriana Teodorescu and Corina Rotar |
Pubblicazione: | Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (496 p.) |
Disciplina: | 320.6 |
Soggetto topico: | History, Modern - 21st century |
Death - Europe - History | |
Thanatology | |
Persona (resp. second.): | RotarMarius |
TeodorescuAdriana | |
RotarCorina | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | TABLE OF CONTENTS; FEAR AND THE UNKNOWN; ETHNOGRAPHY; COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEADAND FEMININE ECSTATIC EXPERIENCEIN SOUTH AND SOUTH-WESTERNRURAL ROMANIA; LITHUANIAN FUNERAL CUSTOMS DURINGTHE END OF THE 19TH-21ST CENTURIES; TWO DIFFERENT BURIAL RITUALSIN THE SAME VILLAGE OF ROMANIA; DIVING INTO THE SILENCE; HISTORY; THE REINVENTION OF PROTESTANTFUNERAL CEREMONIESIN NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY; LAY SAINTS; GERMAN WIDOWSOF THE FIRST WORLD WAR; CHANGES IN FUNERAL CUSTOMS; ESOTERICISM AND DEATH; CREMATION IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA; PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, MUSIC |
LIFE AS FORM OR AS ENERGY IN THE UTOPIANAPPROACH OF THE ENLIGHTENMENTCOPING MECHANISMSFOR THE PERCEPTION OF FINITUDE1; SENSE AND REFERENCE OF DEATH; COMMEMORATING DEATHIN (EUROPEAN) ARTISTIC MUSIC; ATTITUDES UPON DEATH; UPON THE IMAGINARYOF CREMATION IN ROMANIA; THE OBSERVATION OF THE UNOBSERVABLE; THE INFLUENCE OF CULTUREAND TRADITIONS ON ATTITUDESTOWARD DYING AND DEATH; THE DYNAMICS OF CONTEMPORARYWESTERN DEATH TRENDS; FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS?FINNISH LOWER COURTS RULINGSON FEMALE SUICIDES' MANNER OF BURIALIN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY; BEREVEAMENT AND EUTHANASIA | |
GRIEVING ALONE?TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDINGOF THE EXPERIENCEOF BEREAVED SINGLE PARENTSBIOETHICAL ASPECTS OF THE QUESTIONOF "GOOD" DEATH (EUTHANASIA)IN CONTEMPORARY WORLD; HOME MEMORIALSAFTER STILLBIRTHS IN SWEDEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book features the second selection of the most representative papers presented at the international conference ""Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe"" (ABDD), a traditional scientific event organized every year in Alba Iulia, Romania. The book invites the reader on a fascinating journey across the last three centuries of Europe, using the concept of death as a guide. The past and present realities of the complex phenomena of death and dying in Romania, the United Kingdom, Lithuani... |
Titolo autorizzato: | Dying and death in 18th-21st century Europe |
ISBN: | 1-4438-5746-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819709503321 |
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