About the Book
Death affects all aspects of life, it touches our emotions and influences our identity. Presenting a kaleidoscope of informative views of death, dying and human response, this book reveals how different disciplines contribute to understanding the theme of death. Drawing together new and established scholars, this is the first book among the studies of emotion that focuses on issues surrounding death, and the first among death studies which focuses on the issue of emotion.
Themes explored include: themes of grief in the ties that bind the living and the dead, funerals, public memorials and the art of consolation, obituaries and issues of war and death-row, use of the internet in dying and grieving, what people do with cremated remains, new rituals of spiritual care in medical contexts, themes bounded and expressed through music, and more.
Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction: emotion, identity and death, Douglas J. Davies and Chang-Won Park; The postmodern obituary: why honesty matters, Tim Bullamore; Chronic illness, awareness of death, and the ambiguity of peer identification, Eva Jeppsson Grassman; Nationalization and mediatized ritualization: the broadcast farewell of Fadime Sahindal, Eva Reimers; Wiring death: dying, grieving and remembering on the internet, Tim Hutchings; Individuals and relationships: on the possibilities and impossibilities of presence, Arnar Árnarson; Crafting selves on death row, Tamara Kohn; Sojourn, transformative: emotion and identity in the dying, death and disposal of an ex-spouse, Jacque Lynn Foltyn; Seeing differently: place, art, and consolation, Christina Marsden Gillis; 'Sacramentality' and identity transformation: deathbed rituals in Dutch spiritual care, Thomas Quartier; Every funeral unique in (y)our way! Professionals propagating cremation rituals, Meike Heessels; Designing a place for goodbye: the architecture of crematoria in the Netherlands, Mirjam Klaassens and Peter Groote; New identity of All Souls' Day celebrations in the Netherlands: extra-ecclesiastic commemoration of the dead, art, and religiosity, Eric Venbrux; A dream of immortality: Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), Hyun-Ah Kim; De morte transire ad vitam? Emotion and identity in 19th-century requiem compositions, Wolfgang Marx; War without death: America's ingenious plan to defeat enemies without bloodshed, John Troyer; Index.
About the Author :
Douglas Davies, Professor in the Study of Religion and Director of The Centre for Death and Life Studies, Durham University. Chang-Won Park, Honorary Research Associate, The Centre for Death and Life Studies, Durham University and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Religion, Sogang University, South Korea. Douglas J. Davies,Chang-Won Park, Tim Bullamore, Eva Jeppsson Grassman, Eva Reimers, Tim Hutchings, Arnar Arnarson, Tamara Kohn, Jacque Lynn Foltyn, Christina Marsden Gillis, Thomas Quartier, Meike Heessels, Mirjam Klaassens, Peter Groote, Eric Venbrux, Hyun-Ah Kim, Wolfgang Marx, John Troyer.
Review :
'After reading this book, I felt full of ideas and possibilities. Presenting readers with a slice of mortality studies' interdisciplinary range, this volume encourages the inventive pursuit of different [...] topics. Complex relationships between death, identity and emotion offer myriad applications. Quirky and complex, Emotion, identity & death will leave you thinking.' Mortality
'After reading this book, I felt full of ideas and possibilities. Presenting readers with a slice of mortality studies’ interdisciplinary range, this volume encourages the inventive pursuit of different […] topics. Complex relationships between death, identity and emotion offer myriad applications. Quirky and complex, Emotion, identity & death will leave you thinking.' Mortality
