Funerary Practices in the Netherlands
Title | Funerary Practices in the Netherlands PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Mathijssen |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2019-09-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1787698734 |
This book explores the funerary culture in the Netherlands through a mixture of photographs, figures and case studies. The nine chapters demonstrate the process of funeralising and ideas about death in the Netherlands, providing an overview of contemporary funerary practices and their changes over time.
Muslims Ritualising Death in the Netherlands
Title | Muslims Ritualising Death in the Netherlands PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Venhorst |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | 162 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 3643903510 |
This study on the common practice of Islamic death rites in the Netherlands affords valuable insights in the lived religion of Muslims. Particularly in a small town context marked by migration and diversity, Muslims are challenged to re-imagine and re-invent their ritual repertoire. This results in dynamic ritual practices that are the product of vibrant negotiation processes in which rites interact with ritual actors and their (changing) contexts. The emerging ritual repertoire and their dynamics are widely overlooked in an institutionalized and traditional religion like Islam. (Series: Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology - Vol. 3)
Bringing Home the Dead
Title | Bringing Home the Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Heessels |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 175 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Cremation |
ISBN | 9789461911704 |
Making Sense of Death
Title | Making Sense of Death PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Mathijssen |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | 325 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 3643908679 |
This book on death rites and situational beliefs in the Netherlands offers valuable insight into the ways in which the recently bereaved make sense of a death. It shows how people seek and create meaning by reinventing ritual repertoires and by re-imagining afterlife beliefs. Attention is given to the changing role of religion, the co-creation of personalized funerals, and to innovation in cremation and remembrance practices. By demonstrating how people transform their relationship with the deceased through material practices, this study emphasizes the widely-overlooked dynamics of continuing bonds. *** "In her analysis, the author displays a commanding grasp of the bereavement literature.... Serious scholars should find much of value in this work.... Recommended." --Choice, Vol. 55, No. 7, March 2018(Series: Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology, Vol. 5) [Subject: Religious Studies, Death Rites]
Secondary burial in the Netherlands
Title | Secondary burial in the Netherlands PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 13 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Women and Social Change in North Africa
Title | Women and Social Change in North Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Doris H. Gray |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 417 |
Release | 2018-01-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110841950X |
A wide-ranging analysis of grass-roots activism, migration, legal, political and religious changes as basis for social transformation.
Breaking and Making the Ancestors
Title | Breaking and Making the Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | Arjan Louwen |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2021-05-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789464280012 |
This book delves into the richness of funerary practices reflected in some 3000 urnfield graves excavated throughout the Netherlands in order to reconstruct the mortuary process associated with this fascinating funerary legacy from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age.