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050 4 _aGT3244.C36D38 2012
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100 1 _aDavies, Douglas.
245 1 0 _aNatural Burial :
_bTraditional - Secular Spiritualities and Funeral Innovation.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bBloomsbury Publishing Plc,
_c2012.
264 4 _c©2012.
300 _a1 online resource (193 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aCover -- 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aBarton Glebe (Burial site : Cambridgeshire, England).
650 0 _aChurch of England.
650 0 _aNatural burial--England--Cambridgeshire.
650 0 _aFuneral rites and ceremonies--England--Cambridgeshire.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aRumble, Hannah.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aDavies, Douglas
_tNatural Burial
_dLondon : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2012
_z9781441122964
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3003451
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