Natural Burial : Traditional - Secular Spiritualities and Funeral Innovation.

Cover -- Halftitle -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Funeral forms, lifestyles and death-styles -- Introduction -- Key concepts -- Background -- Goal, methods and issues -- Cultural contexts of funerals -- Maximizing meaning in mortality -- Lifeline's identity-curve -- Lifestyle and death-style -- Symbolism, identity and death -- Gift and emotion -- 2 Varied sites and changing rites -- Introducing a typology of natural burial provision -- Defining the place of natural burial: Distinctions and continuity -- Creating the 'natural' -- Managing disappointment -- 'Nature's' emotional geography -- Redefining the boundaries between life and death -- The therapeutic natural place -- The therapeutic human place -- 3 Options and motivations: What people say -- Diversity and choice in the funeral industry -- Environmental values -- Romantic values -- Family values -- Aesthetic values -- Consumer values -- Religious-spiritual values -- Value coherence and 'death-style' -- The social coherence and contestation of values -- 4 Self-gift, soil and society -- Body as waste - Body as gift -- Natural burial and the gift -- Symbolic immortality and continuity -- Inalienable yet transformed narrative bonding -- Moral, animate, soil -- Whose nature? What nature? -- Locating a spiritual dimension in life and death -- 5 Spirituality, theology, self and sense of place -- Lifestyles and death-styles -- Cultural framing of styles -- Natural burial - An emergent spirituality? -- Imagining self -- How to talk: Grand and partial narratives -- In-life narratives of afterlife -- Adam, Jesus, graves and theology -- Returning to earth -- Fertile soil: Transitive decay -- Life, death and gift in natural burial -- Gift and life -- Giving and animacy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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