Modern Passings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Passings write by Andrew Bernstein. This book was released on 2006-01-31. Modern Passings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Modern Death
Modern Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Death write by Haider Warraich. This book was released on 2017-02-07. Modern Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A contemporary exploration of death and dying by a young Duke Fellow who investigates the hows, whys, wheres, and whens of modern death and their cultural significance.
Death in the Modern World
Death in the Modern World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death in the Modern World write by Tony Walter. This book was released on 2020-01-09. Death in the Modern World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Death comes to all humans, but how death is managed, symbolised and experienced varies widely, not only between individuals but also between groups. What then shapes how a society manages death, dying and bereavement today? Are all modern countries similar? How important are culture, the physical environment, national histories, national laws and institutions, and globalization? This is the first book to look at how all these different factors shape death and dying in the modern world. Written by an internationally renowned scholar in death studies, and drawing on examples from around the world, including the UK, USA, China and Japan, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. This book investigates how key factors such as money, communication technologies, economic in/security, risk, the family, religion, and war, interact in complex ways to shape people’s experiences of dying and grief. Essential reading for students, researchers and professionals across sociology, anthropology, social work and healthcare, and for anyone who wants to understand how countries around the world manage death and dying.
A Dark Night's Passing
A Dark Night's Passing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Dark Night's Passing write by Naoya Shiga. This book was released on 1979. A Dark Night's Passing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An autobiographicl novel tracing a young man's passage through a sequence of distrubing events to a hard-won truce with himself."--Page 4 of cover.
The Power of Death
The Power of Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Power of Death write by Maria-José Blanco. This book was released on 2014-10-01. The Power of Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an interdisciplinary perspective, including studies of changing burial customs throughout Europe; an account of a“dying party” in the Netherlands; examinations of the fascination with violent death in crime fiction and the phenomenon of serial killer art; analyses of death and bereavement in poetry, fiction, and autobiography; and a look at audience reactions to depictions of death on screen. By studying and considering how death is thought about in the contemporary era, we might restore the natural place it has in our lives.
