Emotion, Identity and Death: Mortality Across Disciplines

Mr Chang-Won Park, Professor Douglas J. Davies

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., Jun 28, 2013 - Social Science - 244 pages

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.

Contents

• Chronic Illness Awareness of Death and the Ambiguity of Peer: 15
• The Broadcast: 29
• Dying Grieving and Remembering on the Internet: 43
• On the Possibilities: 59
• Emotion and Identity in: 85
• Place Art and Consolation: 99
• Deathbed Rituals: 109
• Every Funeral Unique in Your Way Professionals Propagating: 125
• The Architecture of Crematoria: 145
• Mahlers Das Lied von der Erde: 175
• De morte transire ad vitam? Emotion and Identity: 189
• Americas Ingenious Plan to Defeat Enemies: 205
• Index: 221

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 Árnarson, 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Emotion, Identity and Death: Mortality Across Disciplines
• Editors: Mr Chang-Won Park, Professor Douglas J. Davies
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013
• ISBN: 1409481794, 9781409481799
• Length: 244 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Death & Dying