Death, Ritual, and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites by Douglas Davies

Death, Ritual, and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites

Douglas Davies

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Describing a great variety of funeral ritual from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures not only cope with corpses but also create an added value for living through the encouragement of afterlife beliefs. Th...

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