Funerary Culture And The Limits Of Secularization In Denmark

Author : Anne Kjaersgaard
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783643909640

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Funerary Culture and the Limits of Secularization in Denmark by Anne Kjaersgaard Pdf

Considered one of the most irreligious countries in the world, in spite of continued religious affiliation of the majority of the population, Denmark is an important case to explore the limits of secularization. This study challenges the secularization thesis from the perspective of lived religion, innovatively examining death-related behaviour and hitherto overlooked religion in relation to organ donation, churchyard design, grave visiting rituals, and graveyard photographs. Dissertation. (Series: Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology, Vol. 4) [Subject: Danish Studies, Religious Studies, Death Studies]

Author : Anne Kjærsgaard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3643959648

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Funerary Culture and the Limits of Secularization in Denmark by Anne Kjærsgaard Pdf

Author : Nienke P. M. Fortuin
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643913081

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The search for meaning in later life by Nienke P. M. Fortuin Pdf

The search for meaning in later life: An empirical exploration of religion and death draws on thorough qualitative and quantitative research among older Dutch adults. The scarcity of vital narratives of ageing and the fragmentation of religious `grand narratives' appear to complicate their search for meaning. Moreover, increased longevity and the medicalisation of death challenge many older adults to decide about the right timing of death. This study qualitatively and quantitatively explores narratives of ageing and of religion expressed by older Dutch adults and their attitudes toward death, euthanasia and life prolongation.

Author : Zahra Newby,Ruth Toulson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351127646

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The Materiality of Mourning by Zahra Newby,Ruth Toulson Pdf

Tangible remains play an important role in our relationships with the dead; they are pivotal to how we remember, mourn and grieve. The chapters in this volume analyse a diverse range of objects and their role in the processes of grief and mourning, with contributions by scholars in anthropology, history, fashion, thanatology, religious studies, archaeology, classics, sociology, and political science. The book brings together consideration of emotions, memory and material agency to inform a deeper understanding of the specific roles played by objects in funerary contexts across historical and contemporary societies.

Author : Allan Køster,Ester Holte Kofod
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000528312

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Cultural, Existential and Phenomenological Dimensions of Grief Experience by Allan Køster,Ester Holte Kofod Pdf

This innovative volume examines the phenomenological, existential and cultural dimensions of grief experiences. It draws on perspectives from philosophy, psychology and sociocultural studies to focus on the experiential dimension of grief, moving beyond understanding from a purely mental health and psychiatry perspective. The book considers individual, shared and collective experiences of loss. Chapters explore the intersections between the profound existential experiences of bereavement and how this is mediated by sociocultural norms and practices. It points to new directions for the future conceptualization and study of grief, particularly in the experiential dimension. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, this important book will appeal to academics, researchers and students in the fields of death and bereavement studies, wellbeing and mental health, philosophy and phenomenological studies.

Author : Lesley Murray,Liz McDonnell,Tamsin Hinton-Smith,Nuno Ferreira,Katie Walsh
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781787694156

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Families in Motion by Lesley Murray,Liz McDonnell,Tamsin Hinton-Smith,Nuno Ferreira,Katie Walsh Pdf

This book is premised on the conceptualisation of family as always in motion, which in turn is determined by the interdependent mobilities of families and family members. Contributions from academics, from a range of disciplines, consider rhythms of change in the lived experiences of family and the ways in which they are produced through motion.

Author : Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew J. Strathern
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030768256

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The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies by Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew J. Strathern Pdf

Ritual Studies have achieved prominence since the 1980s, when interest in ritual as an object of inquiry was established, bridging over a number of humanities and social science disciplines. Both connected with religious studies and independent of it; overlapping with social and cultural anthropology, but also with history; related to science and health practices and ranging across the life course to education, Ritual Studies has come to encompass studies of change and dynamism in social life. Rituals are determinate in form, but not static. They enunciate distinctive social values within specific contexts that frame them; and they relate to the wider concerns and issues of their practitioners. Due to this broad and wide-ranging scope, it is often difficult to find a single resource on Ritual Studies, and even more so to find one which moves beyond the beginnings of anthropological theorizing to grapple with the present-day contexts of ritual. Bringing together recent ethnographies of ritual practice and ritualization from across the globe, this Handbook provides case study of ritual in the light of Emotion and Cognition, Identity, Religious Power, Performance and Literature, Ecology and Ecological Disaster, Media, and other topics. While each chapter provides a deep ethnography of a specific society, ritual, or ritualized practice, each also engages with current theoretical and substantive approaches to the relevant topic. The scholars collected here provide original synoptic and indicative pieces as guideposts and pathways through the complex, varied and cross-disciplinary, and vast landscape of scholarship that constitutes Ritual Studies today and points to developments in the future.

Author : Christoph Jedan,Avril Maddrell,Eric Venbrux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429792359

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Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss by Christoph Jedan,Avril Maddrell,Eric Venbrux Pdf

Human beings are grieving animals. ‘Consolation’, or an attempt to assuage grief, is an age-old response to loss which has various expressions in different cultural contexts. Over the past century, consolation has dropped off the West’s cultural radar. The contributions to this volume highlight this neglect of consolation in popular and academic discourses and explore the usefulness of the concept of consolation for analysing spatio-temporal constellations. Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss brings together scholars from geography, philosophy, history, anthropology and religious studies. The chapters use spatial and conceptual mappings of grief and consolation to analyse a range of spaces and phenomena around grief, bereavement and remembrance, comfort and resilience, including battlefield memorials, crematoria, graveyards and natural burial sites in Europe. Authors shift the discussion beyond the Global North by including responses to traumatic grief in post-conflict African societies, as well as Australian Aboriginal traditions of ritual consolation. The book focuses on the relationship between space/place and consolation. In so doing, it offers a new lens for research on death, grief and bereavement. It offers new insights for students and researchers interrogating contemporary bereavement, as well as those interested in meaning-making, emerging socio-cultural practices and their role in personal and collective resilience.

Author : Roger G. Robins
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Arts in general
ISBN : 9783038974536

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Current Trajectories in Global Pentecostalism: Culture, Social Engagement, and Change by Roger G. Robins Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Current Trajectories in Global Pentecostalism: Culture, Social Engagement, and Change" that was published in Religions

Author : Birgit Weyel,Wilhelm Gräb,Emmanuel Lartey,Cas Wepener
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110618150

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International Handbook of Practical Theology by Birgit Weyel,Wilhelm Gräb,Emmanuel Lartey,Cas Wepener Pdf

Practical theology has outgrown its traditional pastoral paradigm. The articles in this handbook recognize that religion, spirituality, lived religion on this side and beyond institutional communities refer to realms of cultures, ritual practices, and symbolic orders whose boundaries are not clearly defined and whose contents are shifting. The Handbook of Practical Theology offers insightful transcultural conceptions of religion and religious affairs collected from various cultures and religions. The first section presents ‘concepts of religion’. Chapters include considerations of the conceptualizing of religion in the fields of 'anthropology', 'community', 'family', 'institution', 'law', 'media', and 'politics' among others. The second section is dedicated to case studies of ‘religious practices’ from the perspective of their actors. The third section presents the main theoretical discourses that map the globally significant diversity and multiplicity of religion. Altogether, fifty-eight authors from different parts of the world encourage a rethinking of religious practice in an expanded, transcultural, globalized, and postcolonial world.

Author : Tony Walter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Peter Bjerregaard,Anders Emil Rasmussen,Tim Flohr Sørensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317099437

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Materialities of Passing by Peter Bjerregaard,Anders Emil Rasmussen,Tim Flohr Sørensen Pdf

‘Passing’ is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or she is said to ‘pass away’ or ‘pass on’. This open-ended saying has at its heart a notion of transformation from one state to another, which in turn grants the possibility of grasping or approximating the passage of time and the materiality of death and decay. This book begins with the idea that since all material things - whether animals, human beings, objects or buildings - undergo some form of passing, then the specific transformation in these passages and the materiality actively given to it can offer us a grasp of otherwise precarious temporalities. It examines how human beings strive to relate to the temporal dimension of death and decay, by giving new shape and direction to being and by examining its natural transformations. Focusing on the materiality of passing, and thereby the relationship between embodiment, temporality and death, Materialities of Passing offers rich case studies from Europe, Papua New Guinea, South Africa and the Russian Far East for exploring the material, spatial and directional aspects of the very interface between life and death. As such, it will appeal to scholars of anthropology, death studies, archaeology, philosophy and cultural studies.

Author : Nikolaj Christensen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004509900

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Unorganized Religion: Pentecostalism and Secularization in Denmark, 1907-1924 by Nikolaj Christensen Pdf

The Pentecostal movement has turned the world of religion upside down in the last century but had only sporadic impact on Europe, the traditional centre of Christendom. This book uses Denmark as its case study to work out why.

Author : Pål Repstad
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004397965

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Political Religion, Everyday Religion: Sociological Trends by Pål Repstad Pdf

Distinguished contributors focus on the relationship between politics and religion, and on ordinary people’s religious life. These topics are approached through empirical studies and theoretical discussions, and editor Pål Repstad demonstrates the need for a closer relationship between the two topics.

Author : Andreas Hackl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000788129

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Permitted Outsiders by Andreas Hackl Pdf

National majorities and their governments often demand that immigrants and other minorities must be “good”: they should work hard, contribute to society, and adapt to dominant cultural norms. Such stereotypical labels for national outsiders, ranging from “good immigrants” to “good Muslims” and “model minorities”, imply that their inclusion and recognition becomes conditional on fulfilling certain standards of behaviour and identity that are predetermined by the national majority. The affected minorities respond in diverse ways, at times striving to be recognised as “good” and at times rejecting these regimes of conditional inclusion and citizenship openly. This book offers ground-breaking insights on how these dynamics of conditional inclusion and “good” citizenship play out today, with a focus on migrant and immigrant-origin minorities in Europe and the Americas. This book shows that conditional inclusion is a globally widespread tool for controlling and rank-ordering minorities. As immigrants respond through diverse struggles for inclusion and recognition, these struggles reveal a hidden battleground of citizenship on which minorities negotiate who can be included and accepted in a given state or society. Their experience shows that conditionality is not an outlier of citizenship, but rather one of its universal core principles. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.