Author: Andalusia (Spain). Dirección General de Arquitectura y Vivienda Publisher: ISBN: Category : Cemeteries Languages : es Pages : 630
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Destacados especialistas de todo el mundo debatieron en Sevilla sobre la historia y los aspectos urbanísticos, arquitectónicos, higiénicos y sociológicos de la arquitectura funeraria. La publicación tiene como finalidad concienciar a la sociedad andaluza sobre el valor patrimonial de nuestros cementerios y su riqueza artística y arquitectónica, histórica y antropológica.
Author: Pamela Voekel Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 9780822329435 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348
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DIVPosits an underlying religious impetus for modernity in Mexico, claiming that the Catholic Church nursed a reform movement that ultimately effected many of the same changes as the Protestant Reformation./div
Author: Luisa Alonso Pedrosa Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : es Pages : 351
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The progressive hospitalization of death transformed the ritual of farewell, the role of the dying, the behaviour of family members, the meaning of the terminally ill patient in the healthcare organization and the denaturalization of the phenomenon of death. As these modifications were manifested, reactions that questioned the attitudes towards the abandonment to which the dying person had been destined started emerging. The first part of the thesis deals with this matters. This context marks the birth of bioethical reflection regarding this problem and modern palliative medicine. The display of modern palliative medicine is accompanied by a reflection on space as a factor that provides an appropriate framework for the development of this new specialty, while improving the well-being of the patient. The importation of palliative care into our territory was initially committed to these criteria, but began losing strength with the diffusion of this type of care to other centres. Nowadays, it is not exceptional to find units that do not respond to the fundamental principles of palliative medicine, which demonstrates the necessity to adapt and define in the future from a comprehensive approach that responds appropriately to the end-of-life experience. Above all taking into consideration that the alternative space of the assistance, home, is often not a viable environment. The second part of the thesis examines the nature of the rejection towards the healthcare space, especially when the possibility of recovering health disappears, since it is not justified then to bear the negative side of the institutionalized environment. Although by reviewing the origins of the country's public health system, we confirm that this hostility is based on a deeply rooted cultural substrate. The high mortality in the charity hospitals sowed a difficult antecedent to overcome in the stage of the technification of medicine. As the population overcame their distrust of hospital admission, the assessment of what these buildings represented was transformed. They became healing artefacts. At present, the link between the sick population and the healthcare space has varied. On the one hand, admission times for therapeutic interventions have been reduced, thanks to advances in non-invasive techniques, thus reducing temporary stays in the centre. On the other hand, the increase in chronic pathologies causes many people to maintain a permanent and periodic relationship with the day hospital or the specialized services that control their disease. The sanitary spaces represent a tolerable environment that is preferable not to need for casual users and a familiar place for the usual patients. Besides framing important life episodes, traditionally associated with the domestic space within it (the birth or death of a person), sanitary architecture demands a different character with respect to this paradigm shift that it symbolizes. The relevance of the architectural space is a determining factor when defining equipment that complements the existing medical architecture. Some built examples show how a greater reflection on the real needs of its occupants can generate an architecture that promotes their appropriation and adaptation to dynamic socio-cultural requirements. Thinking about the conception of the sanitary space, specifically the end of life, incorporating socio-cultural and psycho-emotional criteria of lived experience, can provide a plausible alternative to approach this alien space as an extension of a daily place, in which to frame a proper farewell to the wishes and intimate values of the patient.
Author: Douglas J. Davies Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 0304338222 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 272
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Describing a variety of funeral ritual, from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures cope not only with corpses but also create an added value for living through the growth of afterlife beliefs. The key theme of the book is the rhetoric of death -- the way cultures use the most potent weapon of words to bring new power to life. Human identity and its transformation through mortuary rites is explored through the mummies of Chile and Egypt; African sacrificial deaths; Indian cremations; immigrant cemeteries in the USA; ancestor rites in Eastern religions and Mormonism; and the freezing of the dead in cryonics. Research findings are presented on cremation and afterlife beliefs, especially reincarnation, sensing the presence of the dead, and the death of pets in Britain, to show how mortuary rituals are constantly changing in response to death as a major feature of the human environment.
Author: Douglas Davies Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1474250971 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 321
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Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of 'words against death' it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the many ways in which people have not let death have the last word, not simply in terms of funeral rites but also in memorials, graves, and in ideas of ancestors, souls, gods, reincarnation and resurrection, whether in the great religious traditions of the world or in more local customs. He also examines bereavement and grief, experiences of the presence of dead, near-death experiences, pet-death and the symbolic death played out in religious rites. Updated chapters have taken into account new research and include additional topics in this new edition, notably assisted dying, terrorism, green burial, material culture, death online, and the emergence of Death Studies as a distinctive field. Case studies range from Anders Breivik in Norway, to the Princess of Wales, and to the Rapture in the USA. A new perspective is also brought to his account of grief theories. Providing an introduction to key authors and authorities on death beliefs, bereavement, grief and ritual-symbolism, Death, Ritual and Belief is an authoritative guide to the perspectives of major religious and secular worldviews.
Author: Richard A. Etlin Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226220857 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 268
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Richard A. Etlin demonstrates how the conceptual basis of the modern house and the physical layout of the modern city emerged from debates among theoretically innovative French architects of the eighteenth century. Examining a broad range of topics from architecture and urbanism to gardening and funerary monuments, he reconsiders eighteenth-century French architecture with regard to the ways in which it was informed by symbolic space. This book provides an accessible introduction to a century of architecture that transformed the classical forms of the Renaissance and Baroque periods into building types still familiar today.
Author: Philip J. Havik Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527510743 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 300
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This volume explores the different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, through deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives, silences, and constraints. It focuses on migrants from diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds in Portugal, Spain and Italy. It also includes reflections on Madagascar, Guinea-Bissau, East-Timor and Cuba. The thirteen chapters provide insights into epistemological issues, the trans-national circulation of bodies, spirits and rituals, migration, the placing of the dead and diverse funerary practices and perspectives. Privileging a multi-sited approach to death and migrations, this book draws on oral, archival and published sources to give visibility to populations that often live in liminal structural positions and transient worlds. By exploring the multifaceted dimensions of death and suffering among immigrant populations, it refocuses the debate on migration in Europe and beyond by highlighting under-researched issues such as end-of-life care, mental health, death, burial, cremation, funerary ceremonies and symbols, repatriation and martyrdom.
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