Academic literature on the topic 'Funeral practices'

<p> Carl Bear This study considers the ways in which the complex debates about appropriate Christian funeral practices in late fourth-century Antioch indicated some of the ways in which Christians' ritual practices embodied their theological beliefs and enacted their religious identities. Sources used to study Christian funerals include the homilies of John Chrysostom, the orations of Libanius, the church order known as <i>Apostolic Constitutions </i>, the historiographic and hagiographic work of Theodoret, and archaeological remains. The analysis of the sources utilizes methods of liturgical history that focus on the perspectives and experiences of ordinary worshipers, and attends to the biases and limitations inherent in the historical record. It also places Christian funeral practices in the context of larger questions surrounding religious identity and ritual in Antioch, especially within the Christian cult of the saints and eucharistic liturgies.</p><p> Ordinary Christians and church leaders in fourth-century Antioch had different ideas about how to Christianize their funerals. Criticism from church authorities that Christians' funeral practices were inconsistent with Christian faith in the resurrection were one-sided. Instead, it seems that ordinary Christians had their own ideas about appropriate ways to care for their dead ritually. Especially in the case of mourning and other contested practices, Christians were giving expression to their human emotions of bereavement, loss, and concern for the dead in culturally prescribed ways. Church leaders, such as John Chrysostom., however, desired Christian funeral practices that exhibited fewer cultural influences and that distinctly demonstrated Christian belief in the resurrection in all aspects of the ritual.</p><p>

This thesis explores the historical and contemporary cultural politics of funeral and body disposal among Indian and Chinese residents of Great Britain. The sanitation episteme launched in Britain during the eighteenth-century resulted in new systems for governing things deemed to be polluting or a threat to human health. This included the corpse/dead body and its bodily remains governed by an all-embracing state technique that I call ‘necropower’. Inspired by a Foucauldian approach to biopower, I examine how the governing of the dead is implicated in the formation of state power over non-Abrahamic ethnic groups. More specifically, in this thesis I analyze how the funeral and disposal practices of two ethnic minorities in the UK have been and are governed by the contours of state necropower. I argue that these bodies became the quintessential matter out of place in a state-regulated episteme. Beginning with funerary practices they have historically been deemed polluted and subject to state-based sanitary order, and they have emerged today through a new environmental and sanitary episteme inside a necroregime of power that is mediated by industry professionals. Drawing upon documented historical and contemporary material from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, interviews with state officials, professionals from the Death Care Industry, and Indian and Chinese minorities in Great Britain, I elaborate the various ways that these minorities seek to respond to, negotiate, and avoid expectations and regulations with respect to body and remain disposal.

Thesis advisor: Melissa M. Kelley<br>Thesis advisor: Lisa Sowle Cahill<br>Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2016<br>Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry<br>Discipline: Sacred Theology

This thesis explores the customs and traditions surrounding death and memorialization in the history of Lethbridge, paying particular attention to the public "face" of the practices as observed in newspaper death notices, obituaries, in-memoriams, undertaker advertisements, gravestones and cemeteries. It places Lethbridge rituals within the context of the general paterns of western culture, and others, as described by anthropology, history, archaeology, and art history. Its intent is to understand the effects of certain external influences on the realms of personal choice and individuality, and to observe the extent to which these influences have had an impact on what was once deeply personal family matter.<br>viii, 197 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.

Submitted by Irene Nascimento (irene.kessia@ufpe.br) on 2017-05-09T18:18:48Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO Giliane Cordeiro Gomes.pdf: 1989631 bytes, checksum: be40578dc069afdbe3210ec1d1ee8d41 (MD5)<br>Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-09T18:18:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO Giliane Cordeiro Gomes.pdf: 1989631 bytes, checksum: be40578dc069afdbe3210ec1d1ee8d41 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-29<br>FACEPE<br>Este estudo tem como objetivo compreender as narrativas que os(as) idosos(as) residentes na área rural do município de Arcoverde, estado de Pernambuco, constroem sobre a morte. Através de leituras a respeito da forma que o contexto sócio histórico e cultural afeta o modo de significar a morte, como também, conhecendo a maneira como as narrativas reproduzem e visibilizam a experiência com a morte. Para tal, fundamenta-se em uma abordagem teórica e metodológica de Pesquisa Narrativa, tendo em vista o caráter social da produção de narrativas como algo onipresente e central na vida em sociedade. O argumento central é de que as narrativas sobre a morte revelam modos singulares de compreender e lidar com a morte, expressando modos de enfrentamento da vida. Esta pesquisa alinha-se às investigações em Psicologia Social com ênfase no debate sobre a produção da morte em áreas rurais. A trajetória seguida para a realização da pesquisa foi entrevista narrativa com análise temática e dialógica. De modo geral compreendo que as narrativas expressam modos particulares de atribuir sentido ao evento de morte, de forma que é possível observar a associação que os idosos(as) produzem da morte como viagem, destino, colheita, desaparecimento e ida para a vida eterna. As narrativas também deflagram a manutenção, baseada em uma ética camponesa, de práticas fúnebres voltadas para a solidariedade. A fala dos(das) idosos(as) fazem conhecer modos de envelhecer em que eles(as) permanecem ativos e envolvidos(as) socialmente em suas localidades. Por fim, as narrativas também contribuem para conhecimento de precários contextos de vida em áreas rurais, revelando a dificuldade vivida pelas pessoas desta região no acesso à saúde, assistência social e previdência.<br>The research aims comprehend the narratives that elderlies, inhabitants in rural area of Arcoverde, Pernambuco state, frame about the death. Through reading about the form that the socio-cultural-historical context affect the way of signify the death. As well, knowing the way as the narratives reproduce and make visible the experience with the death. For such, is based in a theoretical and methodological approach of Narrative Research, considering the social character narrative productions like as something central and omnipresent in social life. The main argument is that the narratives about death reveals unique ways to understand and to deal with the death, expressing ways to face the life. This research aligns the investigations in Social Psychology with emphasis in the debate about the death in rural zones. The path followed to realize the study was narrative interview with thematic and dialogical analysis. In general, I comprehend that the narratives express particulars ways to assign meaning to event of death. It is possible to notice the association that the elderlies make of the death like as travel, destiny, harvest, disappearing, and departure to the eternal life. The narratives trigger the maintenance, based in a peasant ethic, of mortuary practice focused on solidarity. The speech of the elderlies show ways to getting old that they remain active and involved socially in their localities. Finally, the narratives also contribute to knowledge of contexts of poor life in rural areas, revealing the difficulty experienced by the people of the region in access to health, social assistance and welfare

In this thesis, I intend to examine differences between religious communities and practices through a comparative study of funeral ceremonies performed at Hacibayram and Kocatepe Mosques in Ankara. The ethnographic data, which have been collected through eighty-seven funeral ceremony that I attended in these two mosques, shows that there are repetitive patterns among funeral ceremonies performed in the same mosque. When we compare the ceremonial patterns in Hacibayram Mosque and Kocatepe Mosque, it is observed that funeral ceremonies performed in these two mosques is differentiated in terms of material culture, gender and sentiments. There are different variables for these ritual differentiations, such as the nature and composition of a religious community frequenting a mosque, and the meanings and traditions ascribed to a mosque, which affect the way in which prayers are perceived and practiced. Besides, it is also realized that repetitive patterns among funeral ceremonies performed in the same mosque may even differentiate, because of social status and worldview of deceased and mourners.