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020 _a9781474250955
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100 1 _aDavies, Douglas J.
245 1 0 _aDeath, ritual, and belief :
250 _aThird edition
300 _avi, 303 pages ;
505 0 _aInterpreting 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
650 0 _aDeath
650 0 _aFuneral rites and ceremonies
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