Muslims Ritualising Death In The Netherlands

Author : Claudia Venhorst
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9783643903518

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Muslims Ritualising Death in the Netherlands by Claudia Venhorst Pdf

This study on the common practice of Islamic death rites in the Netherlands affords valuable insights in the lived religion of Muslims. Particularly in a small town context marked by migration and diversity, Muslims are challenged to re-imagine and re-invent their ritual repertoire. This results in dynamic ritual practices that are the product of vibrant negotiation processes in which rites interact with ritual actors and their (changing) contexts. The emerging ritual repertoire and their dynamics are widely overlooked in an institutionalized and traditional religion like Islam. (Series: Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology - Vol. 3)

Author : Nathal M. Dessing
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9042910593

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Rituals of Birth, Circumcision, Marriage, and Death Among Muslims in the Netherlands by Nathal M. Dessing Pdf

Dessing examined the effects of migration on the lifecycle rituals of Moroccan, Turkish and Surinamese Muslims in the Netherlands. She explores how Islamic rituals marking birth, circumcision, marriage, and death have responded and accomodated to the Dutch legal and social context.

Author : Brenda Mathijssen,Claudia Venhorst
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787698734

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Funerary Practices in the Netherlands by Brenda Mathijssen,Claudia Venhorst Pdf

This book explores the funerary culture in the Netherlands through a mixture of photographs, figures and case studies. The nine chapters demonstrate the process of funeralising and ideas about death in the Netherlands, providing an overview of contemporary funerary practices and their changes over time.

Author : Brenda Mathijssen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Death
ISBN : 9783643908674

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Making Sense of Death by Brenda Mathijssen Pdf

This book on death rites and situational beliefs in the Netherlands offers valuable insight into the ways in which the recently bereaved make sense of a death. It shows how people seek and create meaning by reinventing ritual repertoires and by re-imagining afterlife beliefs. Attention is given to the changing role of religion, the co-creation of personalized funerals, and to innovation in cremation and remembrance practices. By demonstrating how people transform their relationship with the deceased through material practices, this study emphasizes the widely-overlooked dynamics of continuing bonds. *** "In her analysis, the author displays a commanding grasp of the bereavement literature.... Serious scholars should find much of value in this work.... Recommended." --Choice, Vol. 55, No. 7, March 2018(Series: Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology, Vol. 5) [Subject: Religious Studies, Death Rites]

Author : Nienke P. M. Fortuin
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Eric Venbrux,Thomas Quartier,Claudia Venhorst,Brenda Mathijssen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9783643900678

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Changing European Death Ways by Eric Venbrux,Thomas Quartier,Claudia Venhorst,Brenda Mathijssen Pdf

This study was developed by researchers at the Center of Thanatology at Radboud University, Nijmegen. The Center conducts research into socio-cultural and religious aspects of death, dying, and bereavement. In the book, scholars in the broad interdisciplinary field of thanatology offer valuable insights in the changing views of death as found in Europe. The first part of the book presents studies on a conceptual level for various aspects of death studies. In a second segment, different European societies are compared on a national level, while, in the final part, religious beliefs, attitudes, practices, and other worldview-related issues are covered. Countries, disciplines, and worldviews come face to face, providing a framework and starting a profound comparative dialogue on challenges that have confronted this field of study. (Series: Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology - Vol. 1)

Author : Alistair Hunter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319649764

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Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return by Alistair Hunter Pdf

This open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the hidden world of France’s migrant worker hostels, it explores why older North and West African men continue to live past retirement age in this sub-standard housing. Conventional wisdom holds that at retirement labour migrants ought to instead return to their families in home countries, where their French pensions would have far greater purchasing power. This paradox is the point of departure for a book which transports readers from the banlieues of Paris to the banks of the Senegal River and the villages of the Anti-Atlas. In intimate ethnographic detail, the author brings to life the experiences of these older labour migrants by sharing in the life of the hostels as a resident, by observing at close quarters the men's family life on the other side of the Mediterranean as a guest in their homes, and even by accompanying them in their travels by bus, sea, and air. The monograph evaluates several theories of migration against rich qualitative data gathered from multiple methods: biographical narrative and semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and archival research. In the process, it offers a thoughtful contribution to broader debates on what it means for migrants to belong and achieve inclusion in society. This book has been awarded an ‘honourable mention’ in the Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies, courtesy of the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University. For more information please see: https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/awards/scholarly/2018.php. This book has been nominated for the 2019 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize

Author : Douglas Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474250948

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Death, Ritual and Belief by Douglas Davies Pdf

Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of 'words against death' it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the many ways in which people have not let death have the last word, not simply in terms of funeral rites but also in memorials, graves, and in ideas of ancestors, souls, gods, reincarnation and resurrection, whether in the great religious traditions of the world or in more local customs. He also examines bereavement and grief, experiences of the presence of dead, near-death experiences, pet-death and the symbolic death played out in religious rites. Updated chapters have taken into account new research and include additional topics in this new edition, notably assisted dying, terrorism, green burial, material culture, death online, and the emergence of Death Studies as a distinctive field. Case studies range from Anders Breivik in Norway, to the Princess of Wales, and to the Rapture in the USA. A new perspective is also brought to his account of grief theories. Providing an introduction to key authors and authorities on death beliefs, bereavement, grief and ritual-symbolism, Death, Ritual and Belief is an authoritative guide to the perspectives of major religious and secular worldviews.

Author : Alistair Hunter,Eva Soom Ammann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351718424

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Final Journeys by Alistair Hunter,Eva Soom Ammann Pdf

A recurring theme of the public discourse on immigration in Europe today is that migrants are primarily young people, of working age. Against this short-sighted view, the main contribution of this book is to propose that processes of ageing and dying constitute a critical juncture in the settlement of migrant-origin communities, precipitating novel intercultural negotiations in societies characterized by post-migration diversity. Bringing together seven studies reflecting different institutional and (trans)national contexts, the chapters fall under two main themes. A key issue when facing death is the organization of adequate care for the dying, which may be a challenging task in pluralized settings involving both migrant patients and migrant carers. Facing the end of life furthermore involves the practice of rituals in order to make sense of the transition from life to death. Whether through care or ritual, the studies presented here show that the need to reconcile different cultural, religious and administrative norms relating to death is infused with ontological insecurities which may result in new or renewed interrogations of identities and belongings. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Author : Sandra Torres,Alistair Hunter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839106774

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Handbook on Migration and Ageing by Sandra Torres,Alistair Hunter Pdf

This comprehensive Handbook explores the fundamental concepts surrounding the ageing-migration nexus. It is indispensable reading, presenting interdisciplinary research to investigate the unique experiences of older migrants, migrant eldercare workers and older people left behind.

Author : Daan Beekers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350199316

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Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe by Daan Beekers Pdf

1. Introduction: a comparative anthropology of religious commitment -- 2. Becoming committed -- 3. Authentic submission and moral self-scrutiny -- 4. Doubt, community, and conviction -- 5. Fitting God in -- 6. Distraction, habituation, and closeness to God -- 7. Conclusion.

Author : JESSICA MITFORD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The American Way of Death by JESSICA MITFORD Pdf

Author : Avril Maddrell,Sonja Kmec,Tanu Priya Uteng,Mariske Westendorp
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031282843

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Mobilities in Life and Death by Avril Maddrell,Sonja Kmec,Tanu Priya Uteng,Mariske Westendorp Pdf

This open access book focuses on migrant and minority cemetery needs through the conceptual lens of the mobilities of the living and the dead. In doing so, the book brings migration and mobility studies into much-needed dialogue with death studies to explore the symbolically and politically important issue of culturally inclusive spaces of cemeteries and crematoria for migrants and established minorities. The book addresses majority and minority cemetery and crematoria provisions and practices in a range of North West European contexts. It describes how the planning, management and use of cemeteries and crematoria in multicultural societies can tell us about the everyday lived experiences of migration and migrant heritage, urban diversity, social inclusion and exclusion in Europe, and how these relate to migrant and minority experience of lived citizenship, practices of territoriality and bordering, colonial/postcolonial narratives. The book will be of interest to readers in the fields of migration/mobilities studies and death studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners, such as local government officers, cemetery managers and city planners.

Author : Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi
Publisher : Anqa Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781905937196

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A Prayer for Spiritual Elevation and Protection by Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Pdf

Widely used for centuries in Sufi circles, the prayer known as "The Most Elevated Cycle" (al-Dawr al-a'la) or "The Prayer of Protection" (Hizb al-wiqaya), written by the great Sufi master Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, has never before been available in English. This book provides a lucid English translation and an edited Arabic text of this beautiful and powerful prayer. It includes a transliteration for those unable to read Arabic, who wish to recite the prayer in the original language. Showing the importance of Ibn ‘Arabi's devotional teaching, the book explores the prayer's contemporary life, properties and historical transmission. It gives full details of generations of well-known scholars and Sufi masters who have transmitted the prayer, providing an intimate and fascinating insight into Islamic history.

Author : Jeltje Gordon-Lennox
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784503505

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Crafting Secular Ritual by Jeltje Gordon-Lennox Pdf

Answering the call for new rituals in our secular age, this book recognises the essential importance of rituals to the psychological, physical and spiritual health of individuals, families, organisations, and society as a whole. The book examines and explains the history, function and place of emerging rituals in different cultures, as well as providing practical guidance for creating your own secular rituals. The author includes examples, risk factors and checklists for the stages of planning new rituals for life events such as birth, marriage, and death, as well as for public occasions such as graduation and protest marches.