Religion, Death and the Senses

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvJasmine Hazel Shadrack,Christina Welch,Jasmine Hazel Shadrack

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This edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore 6 physical and 3 socio-cultural senses in relation to death and dying: the senses of sight, of smell, of sound, of taste, of touch, of movement, of decency, of humour, and of loss. Each sense section will comprise two chapters to providediffering examples of how death and dying can be viewed through the lens of human physical and cultural senses. Chapters will include historical and contemporary examples of ways in which death, dying and grieving are inextricable from their physical sensual expressions and socio-cultural mores. Most books about death explore how death can be theorised, theologised, and philosophised, or attend to the particular needs of health professionals working in palliative or pastoral care, with little attention to how people engage with and attend to, death, dying and grief sensually. The uniqueness of this collection lies in two areas, firstly its deep engagement with a range of physical and socio-cultural sensual responses to death and dying, and secondly, through its contributors who are drawn from a wide spectrum of professional, practical, and theoretical expertise and scholarship in fields which continue to redefine our understanding of mortality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-09-25
Mått156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt729 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieReligion and the Senses
Antal sidor304
FörlagEquinox Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781800504936

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Dr Christina Welch is a Reader in Religious Studies at the University of Winchester.Dr Jasmine Hazel Shadrack is a composer, musician, researcher, and senior lecturer with over twenty years’ experience. She is currently a visiting lecturer at Falmouth University, the University of Missouri, and BIMM Berlin. She achieved her PhD in Performance Autoethnography, Psychoanalysis and Musicology from the University of Northampton, UK.

Table of ContentsPrelimsList of Figures x-xiAcknowledgements xiiSeries Foreword xiii-xvi, Graham HarveyIntroductionDeath and the Senses 1-12,Christina Welch, Jasmine Hazel ShadrackPart I: Physical Senses – Death and the Sense of Movement1. Kinetic Death: O Bon – Hawai’i’s Japanese Dance for the Dead 15-26, Candi Cann2. Egungun – Moving the Masks of our Ancestors 27-36, Olu TaiwoPart I: Physical Senses – Death and the Sense of Sight3. Death in Sight: Confronting Mortality in Contemporary Art 37-51, Celia Grace Kenny4. Images of Death and their Metamorphosis: From The Grim Reaper to Santa Muerte 52-66, Kate KingsburyPart I: Physical Senses – Death and the Sense of Smell5. Smelling Death: An Olfactory Account of Popular English Funeral Customs, c.1850-1920 67-79, Helen Frisby6. The Sense of Smell and the Odour of Death 80-95, Wendy BirchPart I: Physical Senses – Death and the Sense of Sound7. ‘Sounding out Death’: Academic and Professional Viewpoints 96-113 Suzi Garrod, Christina Welch8. Sounding her Death Ballads: Funeral Songs as my Mother’s Final Words 114-126, Jasmine Hazel ShadrackPart I: Physical Senses – Death and the Sense of Taste9. Food for the Dead, Food for the Living 127-139, Beverly Rogers10. Tasting the Dead 140-154, Christina WelchPart I: Physical Senses – Death and the Sense of Touch11. Crafting as a Continuing Bond: Linking Handicrafts and Lost Loved Ones 155-166, Enya Healey-Rawlings12. The Sense of Touch in Relation to Working with Archaeological Human Skeletal Remains 167-182, Heidi Dawson-HobbisPart II: Cultural Senses – Death and the Sense of Decency13. Displaying the Dead with Decency: Practices at Funeral Homes and at Body Worlds 185-202, Lucy Jacklin, Christina Welch14. Body Disposal, Decency and Dark Tourism: A Case Study Approach 203-219, Alasdair Richardson, Christina WelchPart II: Cultural Senses – Death and the Sense of Humour15. Satire in the Time of a Pandemic: An Interview with Cold War Steve 220-235, Laura Hubner16. ‘It’s not Funny, is it?’: Humour as a Coping Strategy Against Death by Funeral Workers in the UK 236-248, Angie McLachlanPart II: Cultural Senses – Death and the Sense of Loss17. When Glaciers Die: Mourning and Memorialisation in Ecological Devastation 249-262, Jonatan Spejlborg Juelsbo18. Grave Goods as Continuing Bonds 263-274, Kym SwanAfterwordAfterword 275-280, Graham HarveyEnd MatterIndex 281-288