| Description |
1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Half title""; ""Series Page""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Funeral forms, lifestyles and death-styles""; ""Introduction""; ""Key concepts""; ""Background""; ""Goal, methods and issues""; ""Cultural contexts of funerals""; ""Maximizing meaning in mortality""; ""Lifeline�s identity-curve""; ""Lifestyle and death-style""; ""Symbolism, identity and death""; ""Gift and emotion""; ""2 Varied sites and changing rites""; ""Introducing a typology of natural burial provision""; ""Defining the place of natural burial: Distinctions and continuity"" |
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""Creating the �natural�""""Managing disappointment""; ""�Nature�s� emotional geography""; ""Redefining the boundaries between life and death""; ""The therapeutic natural place""; ""The therapeutic human place""; ""3 Options and motivations: What people say""; ""Diversity and choice in the funeral industry""; ""Environmental values""; ""Romantic values""; ""Family values""; ""Aesthetic values""; ""Consumer values""; ""Religious�spiritual values""; ""Value coherence and �death-style�""; ""The social coherence and contestation of values""; ""4 Self-gift, soil and society"" |
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""Body as waste � Body as gift""""Natural burial and the gift""; ""Symbolic immortality and continuity""; ""Inalienable yet transformed narrative bonding""; ""Moral, animate, soil""; ""Whose nature? What nature?""; ""Locating a spiritual dimension in life and death""; ""5 Spirituality, theology, self and sense of place""; ""Lifestyles and death-styles""; ""Cultural framing of styles""; ""Natural burial � An emergent spirituality?""; ""Imagining self""; ""How to talk: Grand and partial narratives""; ""In-life narratives of afterlife""; ""Adam, Jesus, graves and theology"" |
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Returning to earthFertile soil: Transitive decay -- Life, death and gift in natural burial -- Gift and life -- Giving and animacy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"From the 1990s the British developed an interest in natural burial, also known as woodland, green, or ecological burial. Natural burial constitutes part of a long, historical legacy for British funeral innovation; from Victorian cemetery monuments and garden cemeteries through the birth and rise of cremation to the many things done with cremated remains. The book sets natural burial in the context of such creative dealing with death, grief, mourning, and the celebration of life. Themes from sociology and anthropology combine with psychological issues and theological ideas to show how human emotions take shape and help people consider their own death whilst also dealing with the death of those they love. The authors explore the variety of motivations for people to engage with natural burial and its popular appeal, using interviews with people having a relationship with one natural burial site created by the Church of England but open to all. They illustrate people's understandings of life and death in the sacred, secular and mixed worlds of modern Britain."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Barton Glebe (Burial site : Cambridgeshire, England)
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Church of England.
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| SUBJECT |
Barton Glebe (Burial site : Cambridgeshire, England) fast |
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Church of England fast |
| Subject |
Natural burial -- England -- Cambridgeshire
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- England -- Cambridgeshire
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Natural burial
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England -- Cambridgeshire
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rumble, Hannah, author
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| ISBN |
9781441169587 |
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144116958X |
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1441165096 |
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9781441165091 |
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1441122966 |
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9781441122964 |
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9781441152787 |
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1441152784 |
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