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Death, burial and rebirth in the religions of antiquity
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ISBN: 0203288645 1280330902 0203030508 1134792727 9780203030509 9780415129909 0415129907 9780415129916 0415129915 9781134792726 9786610330904 6610330905 9780203288641 9781280330902 9781134792672 9781134792719 1134792719 Year: 1999 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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In Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity, Jon Davies charts the significance of death to the emerging religious cults in the pre-Christian and early Christian world. He analyses the varied burial rituals and examines the different notions of the afterlife. Among the areas covered are:* Osiris and Isis: the life theology of Ancient Egypt* burying the Jewish dead* Roman religion and Roman funerals* Early Christian burial* the nature of martyrdom.Jon Davies also draws on the sociological theory of Max Weber to present a comprehensive introduction

Unsterblichkeit
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ISBN: 3447041684 Year: 1999 Volume: 86 Publisher: Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag


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Zagadnienie śmierci w filozofii analitycznej
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ISBN: 8387703648 9788387703646 Year: 1999 Volume: 185 Publisher: Lublin Towarzystwo naukowe katolickiego uniwersytetu Lubelskiego


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La mort vue autrement.
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ISBN: 2843240840 9782843240843 Year: 1999 Publisher: Le Plessis-Robinson Synthélabo

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François Dagognet et Tobie Nathan ont décidé de travailler ensemble sur le problème de la mort car il leur semblait que les textes actuellement disponibles étaient insuffisants : le deuil était renvoyé à une question psychologique, à la souffrance psychique. Or, François Dagognet et Tobie Nathan ont un point de départ qui leur est commun : l'importance accordée aux objets. Pour Tobie Nathan, si l'on veut comprendre les problèmes posés à des personnes par un deuil, il faut regarder comment on a traité le corps et les biens qui appartenaient au défunt : voilà le notaire dans la situation du psychothérapeute ! Pour François Dagognet, il faut d'abord analyser les pratiques funéraires puisque la mort est avant tout un phénomène social et humain total, plus encore qu'un instant décisif de la vitalité qui se termine. François Dagognet et Tobie Nathan ont écrit de manière alternative, se répondant et argumentant tout au long des chapitres de ce livre.

Death and responsibility
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ISBN: 058509246X 9780585092461 079144077X 0791440788 1438408595 Year: 1999 Publisher: Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press

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Richly informed by readings of Heidegger, Derrida, and Blanchot, the author argues that the notion of responsibility at the heart of Levinas's notion of ethics is intimately dependent upon his account of death.

Reflections on palliative care : sociological and policy perspectives.
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ISBN: 0335194559 0335194540 Year: 1999 Publisher: Buckingham Open university press

The sacred remains: American attitudes toward death, 1799-1883
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ISBN: 0585349533 9780585349534 9780300143690 0300143699 0300064322 0300078684 9780300064322 0300064322 Year: 1999 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Yale University Press

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When George Washington died in 1799, towns throughout the country commemorated the event with solemn processions featuring empty coffins. In contrast, after Abraham Lincoln's death in 1865, his body was transported around the North and displayed for more than two weeks, for by then corpses could be autopsied, drained of their blood, and beautified for the benefit of mourners. This absorbing book explores the changing attitudes toward death and the dead in northern Protestant communities during the nineteenth century. Gary Laderman offers insights into the construction of an "American way of death," illuminating the central role of the Civil War and tracing the birth of the funeral industry in the decades following the war.Drawing on medical histories, religious documents, personal diaries and letters, literature, painting, and photography, Laderman examines the cultural transformations that led to nationally organized death specialists, the practice of embalming, and the commodification of the corpse. These cultural changes included the development of liberal theology, which provided more spiritual views of heaven and the afterlife; the concern for health, which turned those who managed death toward more scientific treatment of bodies; and growing sentimentalism, which produced an increased desire to gaze upon the corpse or to take and keep death photographs. In particular Laderman focuses on the transforming effect of the Civil War, which presented so many Americans with dead relatives who needed to be recovered, viewed, and given a "proper burial."

Representations of death : a social psychological perspective
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ISBN: 1134748760 0203006283 1280334991 0203158563 9780203158562 9780203006283 0415150213 9780415150217 0415150221 9781134748761 9781134748716 113474871X 9781134748754 1134748752 9780415150224 0415150221 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of contemporary mortuary practices, Representations of Death takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death Going behind the scenes at hospitals, funeral parlours, crematoria and cemeteries, as well as holding poignant, in-depth interviews with bereaved women, Bradbury has been able to illuminate the very different perspectives of the deathwork professional and the grieving relative. Illustrated with stunning photographs, this fascinating book makes a significant contribution to the growi

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