Natural Burial

Traditional - Secular Spiritualities and Funeral Innovation

AvDouglas J. Davies,Hannah Rumble

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

From the 1990s the British developed an interest in natural burial, also known as woodland, green, or eco-logical burial. This continued a stream of British interest in funeral innovation from Victorian cemetery monuments through the birth and rise of cremation to the many things done with cremated remains. The book sets natural burial in the context of creative dealing with death, grief, mourning and the celebration of life. Ideas from sociology and anthropology combine with psychological issues and theological ideas to show how human emotions take shape and help people think of their own death as well as dealing with death of those they love. Douglas Davies and Hannah Rumble explore the variety of motivations for the appeal of natural burial, and use interviews with people using a special natural burial site created by the Church of England but open to all, to illustrate the spiritual understandings of life and death in the sacred, secular and mixed worlds of modern Britain.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-09-27
Mått:138 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt:380 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN:9781441122964

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Hannah Rumble is Research Associate at the Centre for Death and Life Studies, University of Durham, UK. She has recently completed her doctoral thesis on British natural burial provision funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Douglas Davies is Professor in the Study of Religion in the University of Durham, UK. His numerous books on death and other aspects of Religious Studies reflect his combined skills both as an Anthropologist of Religion and Theologian. His publications include Theology of Death (Continuum, 2008), Death Ritual and Belief (Continuum, 2002, Second Edition), Brief History of Death (Blackwell, 2004), Encyclopedia of Cremation (Ashgate, 2005).

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‘Davies and Rumble analyse natural burial and give it a spiritual re-brand through which they highlight the potentially meaningless death exemplified by conventional burial and cremation. Life-style and death-style are unified as environmental science is utilised to redefine the hitherto rotting corpse into an animate gift to nature, to fecundity, and to future generations.They challenge the very meaning of dead, challenge the church to create a new ecological litany, and challenge each of us to create our own life-death narrative. We must die to create a viable planet, but only if we utilise natural burial.'

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; 1. Funeral Forms, Life-styles and Death-styles; 2. Varied Sites and Changing Rites; 3. Options and Motivations: What People Say; 4. Self-Gift, Soil, and Society; 5. Spirituality, Theology, Self and Sense of Place; Notes; Bibliography; Index.