The presence of the dead in our lives / / edited by Nate Hinerman and Julia Apollonia Glahn.
This volume offers a selection of articles from authors representing a wide array of disciplines, all of whom explore the following central theme: how can the presence of the dead take life in the hearts of the living? Although individuals die, they can indeed remain “present.” But how? Authors in t...
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| Superior document: | At the interface/Probing the bounderies ; v. 82 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi B.V.,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Pragmatic Immortality and the Insignificance of My Own Death / Peter Caws
- On the Notion of Presence and its Importance for a Concept of Dignity of the Dead / Julia Apollonia Glahn
- The Deathless Self: Death and Immortality in the Discourse of Vedanta / Dhruv RajNagar
- Sites that Cope, Cure and Commemorate: Weblogs of Terminally Ill / Marga Altena and Nothando Ngwenya
- Survivor’s Guilt in Caretakers of Cancer / Shulamith Kreitler , Frida Barak , Yasmin Alkalay and Nava Siegelman-Danieli
- The Haunt/Demons and the Complex of Noon / Tolulope Onabolu
- Planning a Funeral: The Encounter between Bereaved and Officiant / Glenys Caswell
- Living with the Dead: Cremating and Reburying the Dead in a Megalopolis / Marcel Reyes-Cortez
- Heroic Death and Selective Memory: The US’s WWII Memorial and the USSR’s Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad / Susan M. Behuniak
- Preserving the Dead in the Lives of the Living / Nate Hinerman.