Emotion, identity, and death : mortality across disciplines / edited by Douglas J. Davies, Chang-Won Park.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, Douglas J. (Douglas James)

Park, Chang-Won.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects.

Death.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Death--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 231 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Death affects all aspects of life, it touches our emotions and influences our identity. Presenting a kaleidoscope of informative views of death, dying and human response, this book reveals how different disciplines contribute to understanding the theme of death. Drawing together new and established scholars, this is the first book among the studies of emotion that focuses on issues surrounding death, and the first among death studies which focuses on the issue of emotion. Themes explored include: themes of grief in the ties that bind the living and the dead, funerals, public memorials and the art of consolation, obituaries and issues of war and death-row, use of the internet in dying and grieving, what people do with cremated remains, new rituals of spiritual care in medical contexts, themes bounded and expressed through music, and more.

Contents:

1. The postmodern obituary : why honesty matters / Tim Bullamore

2. Chronic illness, awareness of death, and the ambiguity of peer identification / Eva Jeppsson Grassman

3. Nationalization and mediatized ritualization : the broadcast farewell of Fadime Sahindal / Eva Reimers

4. Wiring death : dying, grieving and remembering on the internet / Tim Hutchings

5. Individuals and relationships : on the possibilities and impossibilities of presence / Arnar Arnason

6. Crafting selves on death row / Tamara Kohn

7. Sojourn, transformative : emotion and identity in the dying, death, and disposal of an ex-spouse / Jacque Lynn Foltyn

8. Seeing differently : place, art, and consolation / Christina Marsden Gillis

9. 'Sacramentaliy' and identity transformation : deathbed rituals in Dutch spiritual care / Thomas Quartier

10. Every funeral unique in (y)our way! : professionals propagating cremation rituals / Meike Heessels

11. Designing a place for goodbye : the architecture of crematoria in the Netherlands / Mirjam Klaassens and Peter Groote

12. New identity of All Souls' Day celebrations in the Netherlands : extra-ecclesiastic commemoration of the dead, art, and religiosity / Eric Venbrux

13. A dream of immortality : Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (the song of the earth) / Kyun-Ah Kim

14. De morte transire ad vitam? : emotion and identity in nineteenth-century requiem compositions / Wolfgang Marx

15. War without death : America's ingenious plan to defeat enemies without bloodshed / John Troyer.

Notes:

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-57922-7

9786613479822

1-4094-2415-4

1-283-47982-6

1-317-14466-X

1-317-14467-8

9781315579221

OCLC:

1018171484