Ultimate Ambiguities (eBook)

Investigating Death and Liminality

Peter Berger, Justin Kroesen (Herausgeber)

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2015
290 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-610-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Periods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality. Yet, many volumes on death in the social sciences and humanities do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these "e;ultimate ambiguities,"e; assuming they can pose a threat to social relationships because of the disintegrating forces of death, but they are also crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life. Contributors explore death and liminality from an interdisciplinary perspective and present a global range of historical and contemporary case studies outlining emotional, cognitive, artistic, social, and political implications.

Autoren

Justin Kroesen is Assistant Professor of Art History of Christianity at the University of Groningen. His books include Staging the Liturgy: The Medieval Altarpiece in the Iberian Peninsula (Peeters, 2009), and Myths, Martyrs and Modernity: Studies in the History of Religions in Honour of Jan N. Bremmer (co-ed with Jitse Dijkstra and Yme Kuiper, Brill, 2010).

Peter Berger is Associate Professor of Indian Religions and the Anthropology of Religion at the University of Groningen. His books include Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha (de Gruyter, 2014) and The Modern Anthropology of India (co-ed with Frank Heidemann, Routledge, 2013).

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction
Peter Berger

PART I: RITUALS

Chapter 1. The Ambiguity of Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Materializations of the Dead among the Garo of Northeast India
Erik de Maaker

Chapter 2. Structures and Processes of Liminality: The Shape of Mourning among the Sora of Tribal India
Piers Vitebsky

Chapter 3. Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food: Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared
Peter Berger

Chapter 4. The Liminality of “Living Martyrdom”: Suicide Bombers’ Preparations for Paradise
Pieter G. T. Nanninga

PART II: CONCEPTS

Chapter 5. Disappearance and Liminality: Argentina’s Mourning of State Terror
Antonius C.G.M. Robben

Chapter 6. Three Dimensions of Liminality in the Context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals
Roland Hardenberg

Chapter 7. Death, Ritual, and Effervescence
Peter Berger

PART III: IMAGERIES

Chapter 8. Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul? Post-Mortem Initiation in Medieval Shaiva Tantric Death Rites
Nina Mirnig

Chapter 9. Between Death and Judgement: Sleep as the Image of Death in Early Modern Protestantism
Justin Kroesen and Jan R. Luth

Chapter 10. Body and Soul Between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece
Jan N. Bremmer

Chapter 11. Death, Memory and Liminality. Rethinking Lampedusa’s Later Life as Author and Aristocrat  
Yme B. Kuiper

Notes on Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2015
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: ancestors • Anthropology • Case Studies • cemeteries • Change • Coming of Age • Creativity • Death • death and dying • Destiny • Diplomacy • Evolution • experiments • explore death • Funeral • General Anthropology • Good and evil • Hardship • Humanity • interdisciplinary perspective • Life and Death • Life Changes • life lessons • Liminality • political implications • Psychology • Realistic • Religious life • revolutionaries • Social • Social Relationships • Social Sciences • Theoretical • Tragedy • Transition
• ISBN-10: 1-78238-610-6 / 1782386106
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-610-0 / 9781782386100