
Birth and Death
Studying Ritual, Embodied Practices and Spirituality at the Start and End of Life
MDPI AG (Publisher)
Published on 4. October 2022
Book
Hardback
158 pages
978-3-0365-5415-0 (ISBN)
Description
Birth and death are both profound life transitions, revealing deeply existential, social, and spiritual questions in addition to various forms of ritual and ritualizing. While birth and death are often seen as opposites, this edited volume shows that the start and end of life share many ambiguities. They represent a beginning and an end, and lead to ritualizing as well as embodied forms of spirituality. Throughout the book, the authors discuss theoretical and empirical perspectives on rituals at birth and death from multidisciplinary perspectives, such as religious studies, anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. By doing so, they shed light on new forms of ritualizing, as well as on traditional rituals.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
595 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0365-5415-0 (9783036554150)
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