商品簡介
`Davies and Rumble analyse natural burial and give it a spiritual re-brand through which they highlight the potentially meaningless death exemplitied by conventional burial and cremation. Life style and death-style are unified as environmental science is utilised to redefine the hitberto rotting corpse into an animate gift to nature, to facundity, and to future generations. They challenge the very mearning of dead, challenge the church to create a new ecological litany, and challenge each of us to create our own life death narrative. We must die to create a viable planet, but only if we utilise natural burial.'---Ken West MBE---Retired Bereavement Services Manager and Author of a Guide to Natural Burial
`Provides a brilliant and theoretically sound analysis of why this new choice next to conventional burial and cremation appeals to the British. Natural Burial is a must read for all students of comparative death studies.'---Professor Eric Venbrux---Centre for Thanatology, Radbound University, The Netherlands
From the 1990s the British Developed an interest in natural burial, also known as wood and green or ecological burial natural burial constitutes part of a long historical legacy for British funeral innovation, from Victoria cemetery monuments and garden cemeteries through the birth and use of creation to the many things done with cremated remains. The book sets natural burial in the context of such creative dealing with death, grief, mourning and the celebration of life. Themes from sociology and anthropology combine with psychological issues and heological ideas to show how human emotions take shape and help people consider their own death whilst also dealing with the death of those they love.
The authors explore the variety of motivations for people to engage with natural burial and its popular appeal, using interviews with people having relationship with one natural burial site created by the church of England but open to all. They illustrate people's understanding of life and death in the sacred secular and mixed world of modern Britain.
作者簡介
Douglas Davies is Professor in the Study of Religion and Director of Duman University's Centre for Death and Life Studies, UK. His rumerous book on death and other aspects of religious studies reflect his combined skills as both anthropologist of religion and theologian.
Hannah Rumble is Research Associate at the Centre for Death and Life Studies, University of Durham, UK and also teaches at the Centre for Deatha dn Society at the University of Bath, UK.
