Natural burial : traditional-secular spiritualities and funeral innovation /

"From the 1990s the British developed an interest in natural burial, also known as woodland, green, or ecological burial. Natural burial constitutes part of a long, historical legacy for British funeral innovation; from Victorian cemetery monuments and garden cemeteries through the birth and ri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Davies, Douglas James (Autor), Rumble, Hannah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England ; New York, New York : Continuum International Publishing, 2012.
Temas:
Barton Glebe (Burial site : Cambridgeshire, England)
Church of England.
Church of England
Natural burial > England > Cambridgeshire.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > England > Cambridgeshire.
Enterrement écologique > Angleterre > Cambridgeshire.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Angleterre > Cambridgeshire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Natural burial
England > Cambridgeshire
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Cover""; ""Half title""; ""Series Page""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Funeral forms, lifestyles and death-styles""; ""Introduction""; ""Key concepts""; ""Background""; ""Goal, methods and issues""; ""Cultural contexts of funerals""; ""Maximizing meaning in mortality""; ""Lifelineâ€?s identity-curve""; ""Lifestyle and death-style""; ""Symbolism, identity and death""; ""Gift and emotion""; ""2 Varied sites and changing rites""; ""Introducing a typology of natural burial provision""; ""Defining the place of natural burial: Distinctions and continuity""
  • ""Creating the â€?naturalâ€?""""Managing disappointment""; ""â€?Natureâ€?sâ€? emotional geography""; ""Redefining the boundaries between life and death""; ""The therapeutic natural place""; ""The therapeutic human place""; ""3 Options and motivations: What people say""; ""Diversity and choice in the funeral industry""; ""Environmental values""; ""Romantic values""; ""Family values""; ""Aesthetic values""; ""Consumer values""; ""Religiousâ€?spiritual values""; ""Value coherence and â€?death-styleâ€?""; ""The social coherence and contestation of values""; ""4 Self-gift, soil and society""
  • ""Body as waste â€? Body as gift""""Natural burial and the gift""; ""Symbolic immortality and continuity""; ""Inalienable yet transformed narrative bonding""; ""Moral, animate, soil""; ""Whose nature? What nature?""; ""Locating a spiritual dimension in life and death""; ""5 Spirituality, theology, self and sense of place""; ""Lifestyles and death-styles""; ""Cultural framing of styles""; ""Natural burial â€? An emergent spirituality?""; ""Imagining self""; ""How to talk: Grand and partial narratives""; ""In-life narratives of afterlife""; ""Adam, Jesus, graves and theology""
  • Returning to earthFertile soil: Transitive decay
  • Life, death and gift in natural burial
  • Gift and life
  • Giving and animacy
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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