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"Worldview Religious Studies brings the study of religion, spirituality, secularism, and other mixed attitudes of life under the overarching scheme of worldview studies. This book introduces and defines worldviews more generally before establishing a framework specific to religious studies. The drive for meaning-making is explored through ritual-symbolic activities, ideas of 'play', and the power of emotions to transform simple ideas into values and beliefs that frame identity and signpost destiny. Identity and its sacralisation are discussed alongside gift/reciprocity theory in their relation to ideas of merit, karma, and salvation in Eastern and Western traditions. This theoretical background is used to introduce a new classification of worldviews - natural, scientific, ancestral, karmic, prophetic-sectarian, mystical, and ideological. Organised thematically by chapter, this book brings together familiar and unfamiliar authors, theories, and sources to challenge students and teachers of Religious Studies, Theology, and Ethics. It introduces worldview religious studies as a framework through which to re-think human endeavours to identify, cope and even transcend life's flaws and perils"--

This book is a study of British attitudes towards and practices surrounding death. Davies provides a window into British life and insights into the foundational links between individuals and society, across the spectrum of traditionally religious views through to humanist and secular alternatives.

The act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary enormously and shed a fascinating light on the cultures of which they are a part. In this brief and lively history, Douglas Davies - internationally acknowledged as one of the leading experts in this field - tackles some of the most significant aspects of death and weaves them into a compelling story about our changing attitudes to dying.; Offers a fascinating examination of this subject which is of enduring interest in every culture in the world.; Considers the profound influence death has had on subjects ranging from philosophy to a

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Emotion, Identity and Death -- 1 The Postmodern Obituary: Why Honesty Matters -- 2 Chronic Illness, Awareness of Death, and the Ambiguity of Peer Identification -- 3 Nationalization and Mediatized Ritualization: The Broadcast Farewell of Fadime Sahindal -- 4 Wiring Death: Dying, Grieving and Remembering on the Internet -- 5 Individuals and Relationships: On the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Presence -- 6 Crafting Selves on Death Row -- 7 Sojourn, Transformative: Emotion and Identity in the Dying, Death, and Disposal of an Ex-Spouse -- 8 Seeing Differently: Place, Art, and Consolation -- 9 'Sacramentality' and Identity Transformation: Deathbed Rituals in Dutch Spiritual Care -- 10 Every Funeral Unique in (Y)our Way! Professionals Propagating Cremation Rituals -- 11 Designing a Place for Goodbye: The Architecture of Crematoria in the Netherlands -- 12 New Identity of All Souls' Day Celebrations in the Netherlands: Extra-Ecclesiastic Commemoration of the Dead, Art, and Religiosity -- 13 A Dream of Immortality: Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) -- 14 De morte transire ad vitam? Emotion and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Requiem Compositions -- 15 War without Death: America's Ingenious Plan to Defeat Enemies without Bloodshed -- Index.

The postmodern obituary : why honesty matters / Tim Bullamore -- Chronic illness, awareness of death, and the ambiguity of peer identification / Eva Jeppsson Grassman -- Nationalization and mediatized ritualization : the broadcast farewell of Fadime Sahindal / Eva Reimers -- Wiring death : dying, grieving and remembering on the internet / Tim Hutchings -- Individuals and relationships : on the possibilities and impossibilities of presence / Arnar Árnason -- Crafting selves on death row / Tamara Kohn -- Sojourn, transformative : emotion and identity in the dying, death, and disposal of an ex-spouse / Jacque Lynn Foltyn -- Seeing differently : place, art, and consolation / Christina Marsden Gillis -- 'Sacramentaliy' and identity transformation : deathbed rituals in Dutch spiritual care / Thomas Quartier -- Every funeral unique in (y)our way! : professionals propagating cremation rituals / Meike Heessels -- Designing a place for goodbye : the architecture of crematoria in the Netherlands / Mirjam Klaassens and Peter Groote -- New identity of All Souls' Day celebrations in the Netherlands : extra-ecclesiastic commemoration of the dead, art, and religiosity / Eric Venbrux -- A dream of immortality : Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (the song of the earth) / Kyun-Ah Kim -- De morte transire ad vitam? : emotion and identity in nineteenth-century requiem compositions / Wolfgang Marx -- War without death : America's ingenious plan to defeat enemies without bloodshed / John Troyer