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The presence of the dead in our Llves /
This volume offers a selection of articles from authors representing a wide array of disciplines, all of whom explore the following central theme: how can the presence of the dead take life in the hearts of the living? Although individuals die, they can i.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, NL :
Editions Rodopi B.V.,
2012.
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| Colección: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
. 82. At the interface/probing the boundaries. Making sense of dying and death. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction The Presence of the Dead in Our Lives; Part 1 Death, Presence, and the Self; Pragmatic Immortality and the Insignificance of My Own Death; On the Notion of Presence and its Importance for a Concept of Dignity of the Dead; The Deathless Self: Death and Immortality in the Discourse of Vedanta; Sites that Cope, Cure and Commemorate: Weblogs of Terminally Ill; Survivor's Guilt in Caretakers of Cancer; Part 2 Death, Presence, and Ritual; The Haunt/Demons and The Complex of Noon.
- Planning a Funeral: The Encounter between Bereaved and OfficiantLiving with the Dead: Cremating and Reburying the Dead in a Megalopolis; Heroic Death and Selective Memory: The US's WWII Memorial and the USSR's Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad; Preserving the Dead in the Lives of the Living.