Lifestyle, death-style, and religious arenas
In this paper I want to extend the debate to embrace the theme of death as a theme lying at the centre of most of the great world religious traditions and their local presence in funerary rites. Approaching death in this way provides a significant medium of expressing the core values of a society an...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad de Córdova; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad |
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| Online Access: | http://relaces.com.ar/index.php/relaces/article/view/220 |
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| Summary: | In this paper I want to extend the debate to embrace the theme of death as a theme lying at the centre of most of the great world religious traditions and their local presence in funerary rites. Approaching death in this way provides a significant medium of expressing the core values of a society and, therefore, of expressing similarities and differences between societies. This paper does no more than raise some possible areas of future discussion on the global-local comparisons of types of death as arenas of cultural expression of human existence. As argued at the end of this paper, cultural wisdom is, perhaps, a concept that can serve well in our ongoing discussions of the interface between the global and local dynamics of lifestyle and death-style, where death offers us a window upon our great and little worlds. |
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| ISSN: | 1852-8759 |