Weddings, Funerals, and Rites of Passage
Author : Amy E. Long
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Funeral rites and ceremonies
ISBN : 9780966499216
Author : Amy E. Long
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Funeral rites and ceremonies
ISBN : 9780966499216
Author : Amy E. Long (Rev)
Publisher :
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
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ISBN : 9780966499278
Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429720718
Significant life passages are marked by ritual in virtually every culture. Weddings and funerals are just two of the most institutionalized yet troubled ones in our own society. A wide variety of rites, both traditional and invented, also mark birth, coming of age, and other major transitions. In Marrying & Burying Ronald Grimes, a founder of the n
Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Boulder : Westview Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813324609
Ronald Grimes, a founder of the new interdisciplinary field of ritual studies, tells an intensely personal story about the tole of ritual in his own life. His critique of ritual impoverishment in North America reveals the extraordinary potential that ritualizing holds for negotiating and enriching transitions, both exalted and mundane.
Author : Guerric DeBona
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814645437
Rites of Passage is a much-needed, practical homiletic resource for priests and deacons who preach Christian baptisms, weddings, and funerals. The three authors, a religious priest, a diocesan priest, and a permanent deacon, draw from the scriptural and liturgical resources available to the preacher for these three important ritual moments to suggest ways to build an effective homily. This book will serve as a helpful and engaging resource for priests and deacons in parish life and as a blessing to the faithful.
Author : Donald Heinz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 1998-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0198027605
Is death merely the cessation of life? Are our final years simply a wearing out of the body? Are hospitals and funeral homes--the bureaucratic machinery of death--capable of handling the profound spiritual dimension of dying? In The Last Passage, Donald Heinz offers wise answers to these questions in a book that urges us to "recover a death of our own" and to view our final years as a fulfillment, a "last career." Despite the recent spate of books on death and dying, death remains a fact our culture tries desperately to ignore. In other times and in other cultures, preparing for death was seen as an important spiritual task--perhaps the most important task of our lives. Heinz argues that we can reconceive of death, reinvest it with meaning, and save it from becoming a meaningless biological event. Seeking appropriate models for such a reconstruction, Heinz offers a fascinating overview of the many ways death has been envisioned and ritualized throughout human history, from the Tibetan Book of the Dead to 15th century Christian ars moriendi--manuals on the art of dying--and from Jean Paul Sartre to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. He also surveys the more recent contributions of psychologists, anthropologists, cultural critics, and death awareness advocates, whose efforts have largely failed to integrate death into a larger human story and the larger human community. Finally, Heinz shows us how we might create rituals through the use of music, visual arts, dance, drama, and language that would enable us to approach death with reverence, as the spiritual consummation of our lives.
Author : Susan M. Mumm
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : New Age movement
ISBN : 9780961964535
Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Coming of age
ISBN : 9781453778975
Significant life passages are marked by ritual in virtually every culture. Weddings and funerals are only two of the most obvious ones. A wide variety of rites, both traditional and invented, also mark birth and coming of age. However, many major transitions remain unmarked. Marrying & Burying tells an intensely personal story about the role of ritual in Ron Grimes's own rich and sometimes difficult life. His critique of ritual impoverishment in North America reveals the extraordinary potential that ritualizing holds for negotiating and enriching transitions, both exalted and mundane. Always aware that no two people's experiences are alike, he encourages readers to think critically and creatively about the role of ritual in their own lives. Grimes generous and unsentimental but also unflinchingly honest, so he offers no easy answers. Using an impressive array of genres, he examines the problems of ritualizing in ways that can stitch together the torn pieces of a man's life. Fiction, poetry, journal, and essay create a multivocal text, a symphonic portrayal of the mysterious and intransigent human need to ritualize. This is a book for anyone committed to untangling the meaning of life as actually lived. It offers the student of contemporary North American spirituality and culture a rare opportunity to glimpse the humanity behind a scholar's analysis of ritual.
Author : Gail Kligman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520060012
Author : Abigail Brenner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780742547483
Women's Rites of Passage grew out of Abigail Brenner s desire to answer some fundamental questions about the role of rites of passage in contemporary women s lives. Relying on a research study involving over 50 women, Brenner shows how women today understand the need to take responsibility for their lives and for directing their own paths, and are beginning to do so by creating their own very personal rites of passage.