Periods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality. Yet, many volumes on death in the social sciences and humanities do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these “ultimate ambiguities, ” assuming they can pose a threat to social relationships because of the disintegrating forces of death, but they are also crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life....
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Preface
Introduction
Peter Berger
PART I: RITUALS
Chapter 1. The Ambiguity of Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Ma...
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Justin Kroesen is Professor of Art History at the University of Bergen (Norway) and specializes in the Material Culture of Christianity. He publishes on the histor...
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