Do Funerals Matter?
The Purposes and Practices of Death Rituals in Global Perspective
- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals have been; and where, especially in the Western world, they are going. The Classic Edition includes a new preface from the author reflecting on changes in the field since the book's initial publication.
Death educators, researchers, counselors, clergy, funeral-service professionals, and others will appreciate the book's theory- and research-based approach to the ways in which different cultural groups memorialize their dead. They will also find clear clinical and practical applications in the author's exploration of the five ritual anchors of death-related ceremonial practice and help for professionals counseling the bereaved surrounding funerals. Based on nearly four decades of research and teaching on funeral rites, this volume promises to fill an important gap in the cross-cultural literature on bereavement, while answering an important question for our generation: Do funerals matter?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface to the Classic Edition
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 FuneralsâWhere We Have Been and Where We Are Going
- 2 More Treasured than Words: The Anchor of Significant Symbols
- 3 Getting Everybody Together: The Anchor of Gathered Community
- 4 Walk Out What You Canât Talk Out: The Anchor of Ritual Action
- 5 Looking Back to Look Forward: The Anchor of Cultural Heritage
- 6 Taking the Dead to the Party: The Anchor of the Bodyâs Presence
- 7 North American Quests to Personalize Funeral Rituals
- 8 The Business of Funerals
- 9 Clinical Perspectives on the Value of Funerals
- 10 Farther Down the Road: Using Ritual in Grief Counseling
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- References
- Index