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...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://relaces.com.ar/index.php/relaces/article/view/220 |
| _version_ | 1818152166573998080 |
|---|---|
| author | Douglas J. Davies |
| author_facet | Douglas J. Davies |
| author_sort | Douglas J. Davies |
| collection | DOAJ |
| 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. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-11T13:50:24Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-f5901e9b687a4c4eaa0bf2dc2cbf8b2c |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 1852-8759 |
| language | Spanish |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-11T13:50:24Z |
| publishDate | 2012-12-01 |
| publisher | Universidad de Córdova; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad |
| spelling | doaj.art-f5901e9b687a4c4eaa0bf2dc2cbf8b2c2022-12-22T01:04:19ZspaUniversidad 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 |
| spellingShingle | Douglas J. Davies Lifestyle, death-style, and religious arenas Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad 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 |
| url | http://relaces.com.ar/index.php/relaces/article/view/220 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT douglasjdavies lifestyledeathstyleandreligiousarenas |