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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Main Author: Douglas J. Davies
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad de Córdova; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas 2012-12-01
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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description 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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spelling doaj-art-f5901e9b687a4c4eaa0bf2dc2cbf8b2c2025-08-20T03:47:40ZspaUniversidad de Córdova; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasRevista Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad1852-87592012-12-013102429138Lifestyle, death-style, and religious arenasDouglas J. Davies0Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University.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.http://relaces.com.ar/index.php/relaces/article/view/220muerte, arenas religiosas, cultura, sacrificio, muerte asistida
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Lifestyle, death-style, and religious arenas
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muerte, arenas religiosas, cultura, sacrificio, muerte asistida
title Lifestyle, death-style, and religious arenas
title_full Lifestyle, death-style, and religious arenas
title_fullStr Lifestyle, death-style, and religious arenas
title_full_unstemmed Lifestyle, death-style, and religious arenas
title_short Lifestyle, death-style, and religious arenas
title_sort lifestyle death style and religious arenas
topic muerte, arenas religiosas, cultura, sacrificio, muerte asistida
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