Ultimate Ambiguities: Investigating Death and Liminality

ISBN 10 : 1782386092 ISBN 13 : 9781782386094

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2015

Synopsis

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. Contributors explore death and liminality from an interdisciplinary perspective and present a global range of historical and contemporary case studies outlining emotional, cognitive, artistic, social, and political implications.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Peter Berger is Associate Professor of Indian Religions and the Anthropology of Religion at the University of Groningen. His books include Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha (de Gruyter, 2015), The Modern Anthropology of India (co-ed with Frank Heidemann, Routledge, 2013) and Godroads: Modalities of Conversion in India (co-ed with Sarbeswar Sahoo, Cambridge University Press, 2020).

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 history of art and architecture in medieval and early modern Europe. His books include Staging the Liturgy. The Medieval Altarpiece in the Iberian Peninsula (Peeters, 2009), and The Interior of the Medieval Village Church (co-authored with Regnerus Steensma, Peeters, 2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782386092
• ISBN 13: 9781782386094
• Reliure: Belle reliure
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Éditeur: Berger Peter, Kroesen Justin
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