The Modern Funeral
Author | : W. P. Hohenschuh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Funeral rites and ceremonies |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : W. P. Hohenschuh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Funeral rites and ceremonies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Glennys Howarth |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2016-11-03 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1351843338 |
First Published in 2017. This book examines death rituals and the social significance of undertaking in western society and presents an ethnographic account of funeral directing in an area of east London which, for the purposes of anonymity. It is concerned with undertakers' perceptions and organization of death rituals.
Author | : Mark Harris |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2008-12-09 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1416564047 |
Examines the embalming process and the impact the standard funeral has on the environment while also discussing alternative eco-friendly burials.
Author | : Christos Panopoulos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2014-11-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781503121881 |
Within this publication, the reader is presented with explanations for the central concepts and basic guidelines to the ceremonies that form a part of Hellenic Household Worship as has been established and is currently practiced by the LABRYS Polytheistic Community in Hellas (Greece).It serves as a useful introductory manual for the newcomer to contemporary Hellenic Polytheism as they take the first steps on their journey to worship the Hellenic Gods in a traditional manner.
Author | : Edward Searl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Funeral service |
ISBN | : 9781558964075 |
Practical and sensitive guide for planning memorial services. Includes advice for creating a unique and appropriate service to fit any circumstance. Offers material on writing obituaries, alternative settings, the rural cemetery movement, interment of ashes, cremation and selecting monuments and memorials. Plus sample services to be adapted or used as they are.
Author | : Andrew Bernstein |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2006-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824828745 |
What to do with the dead? In Imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the modernizing world, answering this perennial question meant relying on age-old solutions. Funerals, burials, and other mortuary rites had developed over the centuries with the aim of building continuity in the face of loss. As Japanese coped with the economic, political, and social changes that radically remade their lives in the decades after the Meiji Restoration (1868), they clung to local customs and Buddhist rituals such as sutra readings and incense offerings that for generations had given meaning to death. Yet death, as this highly original study shows, was not impervious to nationalism, capitalism, and the other isms that constituted and still constitute modernity. As Japan changed, so did its handling of the inevitable. Following an overview of the early development of funerary rituals in Japan,Andrew Bernstein demonstrates how diverse premodern practices from different regions and social strata were homogenized with those generated by middle-class city dwellers to create the form of funerary practice dominant today. He describes the controversy over cremation, explaining how and why it became the accepted manner of disposing of the dead. He also explores the conflict-filled process of remaking burial practices, which gave rise, in part, to the suburban "soul parks" now prevalent throughout Japan; the (largely failed) attempt by nativists to replace Buddhist death rites with Shinto ones; and the rise and fall of the funeral procession. In the process, Bernstein shows how today’s "traditional" funeral is in fact an early twentieth-century invention and traces the social and political factors that led to this development. These include a government wanting to separate itself from religion even while propagating State Shinto, the appearance of a new middle class, and new forms of transportation. As these and other developments created new contexts for old rituals, Japanese faced the problem of how to fit them all together. What to do with the dead? is thus a question tied to a still broader one that haunts all societies experiencing rapid change: What to do with the past? Modern Passings is an impressive and far-reaching exploration of Japan’s efforts to solve this puzzle, one that is at the heart of the modern experience.
Author | : Gary Laderman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2003-03-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780195343977 |
Though it has often been passionately criticized--as fraudulent, exploitative, even pagan--the American funeral home has become nearly as inevitable as death itself, an institution firmly embedded in our culture. But how did the funeral home come to hold such a position? What is its history? And is it guilty of the charges sometimes leveled against it? In Rest in Peace, Gary Laderman traces the origins of American funeral rituals, from the evolution of embalming techniques during and after the Civil War and the shift from home funerals to funeral homes at the turn of the century, to the increasing subordination of priests, ministers, and other religious figures to the funeral director throughout the twentieth century. In doing so he shows that far from manipulating vulnerable mourners, as Jessica Mitford claimed in her best-selling The American Way of Death (1963), funeral directors are highly respected figures whose services reflect the community's deepest needs and wishes. Indeed, Laderman shows that funeral directors generally give the people what they want when it is time to bury our dead. He reveals, for example, that the open casket, often criticized as barbaric, provides a deeply meaningful moment for friends and family who must say goodbye to their loved one. But he also shows how the dead often come back to life in the popular imagination to disturb the peace of the living. Drawing upon interviews with funeral directors, major historical events like the funerals of John F. Kennedy and Rudolf Valentino, films, television, newspaper reports, proposals for funeral reform, and other primary sources, Rest in Peace cuts through the rhetoric to show us the reality--and the real cultural value--of the American funeral.
Author | : W. P. Hohenschuh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Undertakers and undertaking |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas G. Long |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 066423853X |
"Before long I began to understand that showing up, being there, helping in an otherwise helpless situation was made heroic by the same gravity I had sensed when I first stood in that embalming room as a boythe presence of the dead made the presence of the living more meaningful somehow, as if it involved a basic and intuitively human duty to witness." from Chapter 1, "How We Come to Be the Ones We Are" Two of the most authoritative voices on the funeral industry come together here in one volume to discuss the current state of the funeral. Through their different lensesone as a preacher and one as a funeral directorThomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch alternately discuss several challenges facing "the good funeral," including the commercial aspects that have led many to be suspicious of funeral directors, the sometimes tense relationship between pastors and funeral directors, the tendency of modern funerals to exclude the body from the service, and the rapid growth in cremation. The book features forewords from Patrick Lynch, President of the National Funeral Directors Association, and Barbara Brown Taylor, highly praised author and preacher. It is an essential resource for funeral directors, morticians, and pastors, and anyone else with an interest in current funeral practices.
Author | : LeRoy Bowman |
Publisher | : Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
In its secular aspects the American funeral appears to be an anachronism, an elaboration of earlier customs rather than the adaptation to modern needs that it should be. Properly employed, it is a highly useful and essential function of society. Improperly used it deteriorates into little more than a shabby opportunity to exploit or impoverish bereaved families. The purpose of this study is to acquaint the reader with the basis of charges of commercial exploitation directed at undertakers, to ascertain what peculiar circumstances influence the methods he uses, and to uncover the social and psychological factors that underlie conspicuous display. The research for this study was carried on over a period of five years. This scientific effort is made to ascertain if the positive functions anthropologists have assigned to funerary rites as observed in other societies also pertain to the funerals of modern industrialized societies, particularly American society.