Ultimate ambiguities : investigating death and liminality / edited by Peter Berger and Justin Kroesen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berger, Peter, 1969-

Kroesen, Justin, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects--Case studies.

Death.

Death--Religious aspects--Case studies.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Case studies.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Liminality--Case studies.

Liminality.

Death--Religious aspects.

Death--Social aspects.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

x, 278 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2016]

Contents:

The Ambiguity of Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Materializations of the Dead among the Garo of Northeast India / Erik de Maaker

Structures and Processes of Liminality : The Shape of Mourning among the Sora of Tribal India / Piers Vitebsky

Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food : Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared / Peter Berger

The Liminality of "Living Martyrdom" : Suicide Bombers' Preparations for Paradise / Pieter G.T. Nanninga

Disappearance and Liminality : Argentina's Mourning of State Terror / Antonius C.G.M. Robben

Three Dimensions of Liminality in the Context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals / Roland Hardenberg

Death, Ritual, and Effervescence / Peter Berger

Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul? : Post-Mortem Initiation in Medieval Shaiva Tantric Death Rites / Nina Mirnig

Between Death and Judgement : Sleep as the Image of Death in Early Modern Protestantism / Justin Kroesen and Jan R. Luth

Body and Soul Between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece / Jan N. Bremmer

Death, Memory and Liminality : Rethinking Lampedusa's Later Life as Author and Aristocrat / Yme B. Kuiper.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781782386094

1782386092

OCLC:

911180085