Ultimate ambiguities investigating death and liminality / edited by Peter Berger and Justin Kroesen.

Other author Berger, Peter, 1969-
Other author Kroesen, Justin, 1975-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books, [2016]
Descriptionx, 278 pages ; 24 cm
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Subjects
Death--Social aspects. --Case studies.
Death--Religious aspects. --Case studies.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Case studies.
Liminality--Case studies.

Contents The Ambiguity of Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Materializations of the Dead among the Garo of Northeast India / Erik de Maaker -- Structures and Processes of Liminality : The Shape of Mourning among the Sora of Tribal India / Piers Vitebsky -- Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food : Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared / Peter Berger -- The Liminality of "Living Martyrdom" : Suicide Bombers' Preparations for Paradise / Pieter G. T. Nanninga -- Disappearance and Liminality : Argentina's Mourning of State Terror / Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Three Dimensions of Liminality in the Context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals / Roland Hardenberg -- Death, Ritual, and Effervescence / Peter Berger -- Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul? : Post-Mortem Initiation in Medieval Shaiva Tantric Death Rites / Nina Mirnig -- Between Death and Judgement : Sleep as the Image of Death in Early Modern Protestantism / Justin Kroesen and Jan R. Luth -- Body and Soul Between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece / Jan N. Bremmer -- Death, Memory and Liminality : Rethinking Lampedusa's Later Life as Author and Aristocrat / Yme B. Kuiper.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2015007887
ISBN9781782386094 (hardback : alk. paper)