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Ultimate ambiguities : investigating death and liminality / edited by Peter Berger and Justin Kroesen.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Berger, Peter, 1969- (Editor), Kroesen, Justin, 1975- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Death > Social aspects > Case studies.
Death > Religious aspects > Case studies.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Case studies.
Liminality > Case studies.
Death > Religious aspects.
Death > Social aspects.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Liminality.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Ambiguous Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Materializations of the Dead among the Garo of Northeast India / Erik de Maaker
  • Structures and Processes of Liminality : The Shape of Mourning among the Sora of Tribal India / Piers Vitebsky
  • Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food : Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared / Peter Berger
  • The Liminality of "Living Martyrdom" : Suicide Bombers' Preparations for Paradise / Pieter Nanninga
  • Disappearance and Liminality : Argentina's Mourning of State Terror / Antonius C.G.M. Robben
  • Three Dimensions of Liminality in the Context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals / Roland Hardenberg
  • Death, Ritual, and Effervescence / Peter Berger
  • Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul? : Post-Mortem Initiation in Medieval Shaiva Tantric Death Rites / Nina Mirnig
  • Between Death and Judgement : Sleep as the Image of Death in Early Modern Protestantism / Justin E.A. Kroesen and Jan R. Luth
  • Body and Soul Between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece / Jan N. Bremmer
  • Death, Memory and Liminality : Rethinking Lampedusa's Later Life as Author and Aristocrat / Yme B. Kuiper.

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