Death, Ritual and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites

by Douglas J. Davies

Book Overview

Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of 'words against death' it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the many ways in which people have not let death have the last word, not simply in terms of funeral rites but also in memorials, graves, and in ideas of ancestors,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474250963
• ISBN13: 9781474250962
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"