Download or read book Mirrors of Mortality Routledge Revivals written by Joachim Whaley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, this reissue examines mankind’s preoccupation with death and mortality by isolating various societies in different periods of time. The authors examine not only the formal rituals associated with the last rite of passage, but also the social attitudes to death and dying which these rituals evidence. The essays establish that different periods do seem to be characterized by different images of death and attitudes to it, but the authors wisely avoid trying to impose strict chronological pattern. A pioneering work in the historical study of attitudes to death, this reissue should reignite discussion on the significance of death in human history. Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood examines attitudes to death as reflected in myth and religious thought in Ancient Greece and relates them to social and economic change. R. C. Finucane analysis the social significance of the ‘exemplary’ deaths of kings, criminals, traitors and saints in medieval Europe. Paul Fritz’s essay illustrates the importance of royal burials in early modern Britian; while Joachim Whaley examines the social and political significance of funerals in Hamburg between 1500 and 1800. John McManners discusses the work of Phililppe Aries and other prominent French scholars on the history of attitudes to death. David Irwin examines the images of death portrayed in European tombs around 1800. C.A Bayly analyzes the relationship between death ritual and society in Hindu Northern India, while David Cannadine discusses the impact of war on attitudes to death in modern Britain.

Download or read book The Mirror of Life and Death written by Laurence John Bendit and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ivory Mirror written by Stephen Perkinson and published by Bowdoin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ivory Mirror / Stephen Perkinson -- The Light at the End of the Tunnel : Manuscript Illumination and the Concept of Death / Elizabeth Morrison -- Chicart Bailly and the Specter of Death : Memento Mori in a Sixteenth-Century Estate Inventory / Katherine Baker -- Plates -- List of Plates -- Memento mori Beads : Collecting Histories and Contexts / Naomi Speakman -- The Poetry of Death / Emma Maggie Solberg

Download or read book Mortality Mirror written by Philip Eisenberg and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Golden Bough The Dying God The Mortality of the Gods The Killing of the Divine King written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frazer's series which attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.

Download or read book Mirrors of Mortality written by Joachim Whaley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1981 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond the Mirror written by Henri J. M. Nouwen and published by Crossroad Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Nouwen's personal story of a near lethal accident and the resultant journey to that shadowland between life and death.

Download or read book The Hand on the Mirror written by Janis Heaphy Durham and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unbelievably believable story about the afterlife, with documenting photographs from the former publisher of a major metropolitan newspaper. An unbelievably believable story about the afterlife, with documenting photographs from the former publisher of a major metropolitan newspaper. In 2004, Janis Heaphy Durham's husband, Max Besler, died of cancer at age 56. The daughter of a Presbyterian minister, she practiced her faith as she struggled with her loss. Soon she began encountering phenomena unlike anything she'd ever experienced: lights flickering, doors opening and closing, clocks stopping at 12:44, the exact time of Max's death. But then something startling happened that changed Heaphy Durham's life forever. A powdery handprint appeared on her bathroom mirror on the first anniversary of Max's death. This launched Heaphy Durham on a journey that transformed her spiritually and altered her view of reality forever. She interviewed scientists and spiritual practitioners along the way, as she discovered that the veil between this world and the next is thin and it's love that bridges the two worlds.

Download or read book Ageing Health and Care written by Christina R. Victor and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ageing, Health and Care provides an international, up-to-date perspective on health and ageing, as well as a comprehensive overview of the health status and experiences of older people. Written by a leader in the field, this textbook covers key questions, such as the fitness of older people in the future, the widening inequalities in the health of older people, and the extent to which health in old age reflects habits and behavior in earlier life. The book includes chapters on physical health, mental health, disability, and lifestyle. Additionally, it offers a synthesis of current policy developments relating to health and social care for older people, and it examines the key debates on the future of health care for the elderly.

Download or read book What is Death written by Tyler Volk and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-08-17 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: what is death? A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life Answering the question "What is death?" by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention to a narrow zone around the individual body of a creature. Instead, how expansive is the answer we receive when we look at the context of death within the biosphere. Death now is tied to all of life, via the atmosphere and ocean. Death supports the awesome biological enterprise of making abundant the green and squiggly life. Talk about death has headed us straight into a contemplation of life, not only individual life, but big life, life on a global scale. Death and life are neatly dovetailed by the supreme cabinetmaker of evolution. Again, the crucial feature is not the death of any one creature per se, but rather what is done with death. To reach into the meaning of death, we must reach out into the wider context of which death is a part.

Download or read book Beyond the Body written by Elizabeth Hallam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Body presents a new and sophisticated approach to death, dying and bereavement, and the sociology of the body. The authors challenge existing theories that put the body at the centre of identity. They go 'beyond the body' to highlight the persistence of self-identity even when the body itself has been disposed of or is missing. Chapters draw together a wide range of empirical data, including cross-cultural case studies and fieldwork to examine both the management of the corpse and the construction of the 'soul' or 'spirit' by focusing on the work of: *undertakers *embalmers *coroners *clergy *clairvoyants *exorcists *bereavement counsellors.

Download or read book THE HAND ON THE MIRROR written by DURHAM JANIS HEAPH and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What Causes Cancer written by Anthony B. Miller and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Anthony B. Miller has written What Causes Cancer: What We Know and What It Means for a broad general audience, but it is also intended for those who have already been diagnosed with cancer, as well as for their families and friends. Dr. Miller's central premise is that a great deal more is known about the prevention of cancer than most of us realize. In most of the countries of the Western world, cancer will affect one in three persons. Although it is not yet possible to tell which of us is the one of those three, all will benefit by acting upon the knowledge presented herein. What Causes Cancer offers readers a clear and concise overview of the main types of cancer, summarizing data gathered over the history of cancer research from across the globe....

Download or read book The Dance of Death written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Holbein s Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood written by Hans Holbein and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mirror of Time written by Joan M. Boyle and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contingent Lives written by Caroline H. Bledsoe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason—to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Lives explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is a linear, Western model that equates aging and the ability to reproduce with the passage of time, the other a Gambian model that views aging as contingent on the cumulative physical, social, and spiritual hardships of personal history, especially obstetric trauma. Viewing each of these two models from the perspective of the other, Caroline Bledsoe produces fresh understandings of the classical anthropological subjects of reproduction, time, and aging as culturally shaped within women's conjugal lives. Her insights will be welcomed by scholars of anthropology and demography as well as by those working in public health, development studies, gerontology, and the history of medicine.