Death, ritual, and belief :
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TextEdition: Third editionDescription: vi, 303 pagesISBN: 9781474250962; 1474250963; 9781474250955; 1474250955Subject(s): Death | Funeral rites and ceremonies
Contents:
Interpreting death rites -- Coping with corpses: impurity, fertility and fear -- Theories of grief -- Violence, sacrifice and conquest -- Eastern destiny and death -- Ancestors, cemeteries and local identity -- Jewish and Islamic destinies -- Christianity and the death of Jesus -- Near-death, symbolic death and rebirth -- Somewhere to die -- Souls and the presence of the dead -- Pet and animal death -- Robots, books, films and buildings -- Offending death, grief and religions -- Secular death and life
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Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | BL504.D43 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0160506 | |
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Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | BL504.D43 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0160504 |
Interpreting death rites -- Coping with corpses: impurity, fertility and fear -- Theories of grief -- Violence, sacrifice and conquest -- Eastern destiny and death -- Ancestors, cemeteries and local identity -- Jewish and Islamic destinies -- Christianity and the death of Jesus -- Near-death, symbolic death and rebirth -- Somewhere to die -- Souls and the presence of the dead -- Pet and animal death -- Robots, books, films and buildings -- Offending death, grief and religions -- Secular death and life
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