Death And Bereavement Around The World

Author : Pittu Laungani,William Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134789771

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Death and Bereavement Across Cultures by Pittu Laungani,William Young Pdf

All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and though science has had a major impact on views of death, it has taught us little about the way to die or to grieve. Many who come into contact with the dying and the bereaved from other cultures are at a loss to know how to offer appropriate and sensitive support. Death and Bereavement Across Cultures, provides a handbook with which to meet the needs of doctors, nurses, social workers, counsellors and others involved in the care of the dying and bereaved. Written by international authorities in the field, this important text: * describes the rituals and beliefs of major world religions * explains their psychological and historical context * shows how customs change on contact with the West * considers the implications for the future This book explores the richness of mourning traditions around the world with the aim of increasing the understanding which we all bring to the issue of death.

Author : Frank E. Eyetsemitan
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780398093488

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Death, Dying, and Bereavement Around the World by Frank E. Eyetsemitan Pdf

This book evaluates existing theories, concepts, and models with the practices of death, dying and bereavement from different societies around the world. The differences in various belief systems and how these influence death, dying and bereavement practices are highlighted, including Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Ancestor worship, Afro-Brazilian religions, the belief systems of Native Indians, the Maoris of New Zealand and others. These belief systems will contribute to a better understanding of the existing models of death, dying and bereavement that are examined. An overview of countries in different continents is also provided. This helps to refresh the reader’s mind of the country’s geographical location and bring attention to the prevailing causes of death and life expectancy of nations in different parts of the world. At the end of each chapter, review questions are provided to aid in the reader’s comprehension and allow for self-reflection. At the end of each chapter, an Additional Readings section has been included so the reader can find additional information to further an interest developed from reading the chapter material. A glossary of terms is included to aid with explaining certain terms and add to the reader’s vocabulary. Given its overview of existing theories/models as well as a focus on issues of cross-cultural relevance on death, dying and bereavement, the book will be of interest to bereavement counselors, healthcare practitioners, and others.

Author : Colin Murray Parkes,Pittu Laungani,William Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317520931

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Death and Bereavement Across Cultures by Colin Murray Parkes,Pittu Laungani,William Young Pdf

All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and although Western science has had a major impact on how people die, it has taught us little about the way to die or to grieve. Many whose work brings them into contact with the dying and the bereaved from Western and other cultures are at a loss to know how to offer appropriate and sensitive support. Death and Bereavement Across Cultures 2nd Edition is a handbook which meets the needs of doctors, nurses, social workers, hospital chaplains, counsellors and volunteers caring for patients with life-threatening illness and their families before and after bereavement. It is a practical guide explaining the religious and other differences commonly met with in multi-cultural societies when someone is dying or bereaved. In doing so readers may be surprised to find how much we can learn from other cultures about our own attitudes and assumptions about death. Written by international experts in the field the book: Describes the rituals and beliefs of major world religions; Explains their psychological and historical context; Shows how customs are changed by contact with the West; Considers the implications for the future The second edition includes new chapters that: explore how members of the health care professions perform roles formerly conducted by priests and shamans can cross the cultural gaps between different cultures and religions; consider the relevance of attitudes and assumptions about death for our understanding of religious and nationalist extremism and its consequences; discuss the Buddhist, Islamic and Christian ways of death. Death raises questions which science cannot answer. Whatever our personal beliefs we can all gain from learning how others view these ultimate problems. This book explores the richness of mourning traditions around the world with the aim of increasing the sensitivity and understanding which we all bring to the issue of death and bereavement.

Author : Joanne Cacciatore,John DeFrain
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319139456

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The World of Bereavement by Joanne Cacciatore,John DeFrain Pdf

This visionary work explores the sensitive balance between the personal and private aspects of grief, the social and cultural variables that unite communities in bereavement, and the universal experience of loss. Its global journey takes readers into the processes of coping, ritual, and belief across established and emerging nations, indigenous cultures, and countries undergoing major upheavals, richly detailed by native scholars and practitioners. In these pages, culture itself is recognized as formed through many lenses, from the ancestral to the experiential. The human capacity to mourn, endure, and make meaning is examined in papers such as: Death, grief, and culture in Kenya: experiential strengths-based research. Death and grief in Korea: the continuum of life and death. To live with death: loss in Romanian culture. The Brazilian ways of living, dying, and grieving. Death and bereavement in Israel: Jewish, Muslim, and Christian perspectives. Completing the circle of life: death and grief among Native Americans. It is always normal to remember: death, grief, and culture in Australia. The World of Bereavement will fascinate and inspire clinicians, providers, and researchers in the field of death studies as well as privately-held professional training programs and the bereavement community in general.

Author : John D. Morgan,Pittu Laungani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781351844932

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Death and Bereavement around the World by John D. Morgan,Pittu Laungani Pdf

The make-up of the contemporary nation-state is increasingly multiethnic and statistics show that in many cases no one group is numerically the largest. Interethnic relations are given global visibility by the media while much that happens among different groups depends on context. Editors John D. Morgan (King's College, London) and Pittu Laungani (South Bank and Manchester Universities, England) have gathered leading international authorities to produce Death and Bereavement Around the World the first of a five-volume presentation and analysis of the ways different peoples experience dying and grief. Effective bereavement care requires a knowledge of an individual's physical, social, educational, and spiritual existence since the expressions of grief and the needs that emerge vary widely from one to another and are subject to past experiences, cultural expectations, personal beliefs, and relationships. An individual's identity comes from a sense of personal uniqueness; solidarity with group ideals; continuity with the past, present and future; and from the culture by which an individual is raised or adopted. This first volume discusses the major religious traditions of the world and how they help followers deal with the fundamentals of life.

Author : John D Morgan,Stephen Palmer,Pittu Laungani,Dale A Lund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351844956

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Death and Bereavement Around the World by John D Morgan,Stephen Palmer,Pittu Laungani,Dale A Lund Pdf

This final volume of ""Death and Bereavement Around the World"" reflects on some major themes: death and after-life, religion and spirituality, rites and rituals, secularist approaches, cultural variations, suicide, and other issues. The first few chapters describe progress in end-of-life care, including some new tools to evaluate hospice care (chapter 1); what children know, when they know it, and how parents can respond to questions, with some guidelines for support by schools (chapter 2); the importance of ritual (chapter 3); and, gender differences in death customs around the world (chapter 4).The transcript of a 1997 interview of John (Jack) Morgan by Pittu Laungani is presented as chapter 5. The following chapters discuss death systems and suicide (chapter 6); HIV/AIDS, including the role of cultural and economic factors in the spread of the disease (chapter 7); and grief and bereavement in the developing world, taking the AIDS pandemic as a specific challenge (chapter 8). Chapter 9 covers issues related to dying and death in Romania. In chapter 10 the focus is on the various functions and uses of names in a cross-cultural context. Roadside memorials as a pivotal healing strategy are the topic of chapter 11. Chapters 12 and 13 focus on spiritual experience with loss.The final chapter presents some conclusions, and in the Epilogue, Mary Ann Morgan honors the life, career, dying, death, and achievements of John (Jack) Morgan. The 'Final Word' includes the words of Pittu Laungani, from a book published just weeks before his death in February 2007.This work is for anyone interested in or working in death and bereavement issues, particularly academics, educators, librarians, chaplains, clergy, funeral service directors, hospice care providers and volunteers, palliative care providers, nurses, immigration officers, psychologists, social workers, psychotherapists, and counselors, especially bereavement counselors.

Author : Helaine Selin,Robert M. Rakoff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030188269

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Death Across Cultures by Helaine Selin,Robert M. Rakoff Pdf

Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. It includes chapters on countries in Africa, Asia, South America, as well as indigenous people in Australia and North America. These chapters address changes in death rituals and beliefs, medicalization and the industry of death, and the different ways cultures mediate the impacts of modernity. Comparative studies with the west and among countries are included. This book brings together global research conducted by anthropologists, social scientists and scholars who work closely with individuals from the cultures they are writing about.

Author : Shirley Firth
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 9068319760

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Dying, Death and Bereavement in a British Hindu Community by Shirley Firth Pdf

This study is an exploration of the religious beliefs, attitudes, traditions and rituals of a British hindu community, with respect to dying, death and bereavement. The observations of this community are compared with material obtained during three months of fieldwork in India and ethnographic sources. The primary focus of this study is on individual Hindus, seen in the context of their family and community: their beliefs, experiences and perceptions about death, and their reactions to the changes that take place. It also examines the process of adaptation and change in the death rituals and the role of the pandits in maintaining continuity. The first part of this study sets the context, introducing the issues confronting Hindus facing death and bereavement in Britain. It discusses theoretical issues in a multicultural study as well as beliefs about death and life after death. In the second part, Hindu ritual practices around death are explored, using a model of nine stages from preparation for death to the final post-mortem and annual ancestral rituals. The third part explores the social and psychological dimensions of death, grief and mourning, the implications of death in hospital and the professional and bureaucratic issues which affect Hindu deaths in Britain. The social aspects of mourning are discussed, with reference to pollution, the role of the family and community, young people and widows. Finally, the author examines the implications of social changes for British Hindus and for those who are involved with them in the caring professions.

Author : John D. Morgan,Pittu Laungani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015066897276

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Death and Bereavement Around the World by John D. Morgan,Pittu Laungani Pdf

Concentrates on the consolidation of ancient cultures and methods of caring for the dying and grieving. This book contains three chapters on Japan, that emphasize traditional beliefs, contain the history of the death awareness movement, and review the available palliative care services.

Author : John D. Morgan,Pittu Laungani,Stephen Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0895032325

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Death and Bereavement Around the World by John D. Morgan,Pittu Laungani,Stephen Palmer Pdf

Author : Tony Walter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526480088

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Death in the Modern World by Tony Walter Pdf

Death comes to all humans, but how death is managed, symbolised and experienced varies widely, not only between individuals but also between groups. What then shapes how a society manages death, dying and bereavement today? Are all modern countries similar? How important are culture, the physical environment, national histories, national laws and institutions, and globalization? This is the first book to look at how all these different factors shape death and dying in the modern world. Written by an internationally renowned scholar in death studies, and drawing on examples from around the world, including the UK, USA, China and Japan, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. This book investigates how key factors such as money, communication technologies, economic in/security, risk, the family, religion, and war, interact in complex ways to shape people’s experiences of dying and grief. Essential reading for students, researchers and professionals across sociology, anthropology, social work and healthcare, and for anyone who wants to understand how countries around the world manage death and dying.

Author : Donald P. Irish,Kathleen F. Lundquist,Vivian J. Nelsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317756866

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Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death and Grief by Donald P. Irish,Kathleen F. Lundquist,Vivian J. Nelsen Pdf

This volume is directed towards professionals who work in the fields concerning death and dying. These professionals must perceive the needs of people with cultural patterns which are different from the "standard and dominant" patterns in the United States and Canada. Accordingly, the book includes illustrative episodes and in-depth presentations of selected "ethnic patterns".; Each of the "ethnic chapters" is written by an author who shares the cultural traditions the chapter describes. Other chapters examine multicultural issues and provide the means for personal reflection on death and dying. There are also two bibliographic sections, one general and one geared towards children. The text is divided into three sections - Cross-Cultural and Personal perspectives, Dying, Death, and Grief Among Selected Ethnic Communities, and Reflections and Conclusions.; The book is aimed at those in the fields of clinical psychology, grief therapy, sociology, nursing, social and health care work.

Author : Carla Sofka, PhD,Kathleen R. Gilbert
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780826107329

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Dying, Death, and Grief in an Online Universe by Carla Sofka, PhD,Kathleen R. Gilbert Pdf

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Author : John D. Morgan,Pittu Laungani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015058871156

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Death and Bereavement Around the World: Europe by John D. Morgan,Pittu Laungani Pdf

Gathering together leading international authorities, the editors of 'Death and bereavement around the world' explore how the issue is handled by various cultures, as well as how differing peoples experience dying and grief.

Author : Alan R. Kemp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317348979

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Death, Dying and Bereavement in a Changing World by Alan R. Kemp Pdf

This title takes a comprehensive approach, exploring the physical, social, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of death, dying, and bereavement.Through personal stories from real people, Death, Dying, and Bereavement provides readers with a context for understanding their changing encounters with such difficult concepts.