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Religion, Death and the Senses

Collection created September 2024

18 Total Resources

18 resources. Showing results 1 through 10.

Welch/Religion, Death, 1. Kinetic Death: O Bon - Hawai’i’s Japanese Dance for the Dead
Uploaded September, 2024
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- book chapter
- religion death and the senses
- hawai'i
- japanese buddhism
- dancing
- o'bon
- dance for the dead
- religious identity
- ancestors
- mahayana
- filial piety
- mokuren
- migration
- japanese-americans
- grief
- kinetic
- body memory
- death rituals
- relational
- mourning
- food and religion
Welch/Religion, Death, 2. Egungun - Moving the Masks of our Ancestors
Uploaded September, 2024
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- book chapter
- religion death and the senses
- memorialization
- dancing
- ancestor worship
- egungun
- yoruba
- african indigenous traditions
- masquerades
- temporality
- death
- transition
- orisha
- cyclical and circular time
- ritual drama
Welch/Religion, Death, 3. Death in Sight: Confronting Mortality in Contemporary Art
Uploaded September, 2024
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- book chapter
- religion death and the senses
- vanitas art
- 16th century
- 17th century
- symbolism
- contemporary
- paintings
- visibility
- sight
- mortality
- transience
- teleology
- immanence
- materiality
- decay
- the reformation
- hans holbein te younger
- georges de la tour
- ecclesiastes
- christian art
- philip braham
- suicide
Welch/Religion, Death,4. Images of Death and their Metamorphosis: From The Grim Reaper to Santa Muerte
Uploaded September, 2024
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- book chapter
- religion death and the senses
- catholicism
- death
- anthropomorphism
- representations
- mortality
- gender
- grim reaper
- la parca
- danse macabre
- skeletans
- memento mori
- social stratification
- iconography
- eschatology
- death deities
- latin america
- western europe
Welch/Religion, Death, 5. Smelling Death: An Olfactory Account of Popular English Funeral Customs, c.1850-1920
Uploaded September, 2024
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- book chapter
- religion death and the senses
- olfactory sensations
- death
- england
- funerals
- 19th century
- early 20th century
- christianity
- purification
- ritual
- emotions
- memory
- catharsis
- public health
- folk practices
- magical thinking
- apotropaic
- food and religion
- smell
- bees
Welch & Whitehead/Religion and Touch, 6. The Senses and Their Absences in Balinese and Tamil Hinduism
Uploaded October, 2021
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- book chapter
- hinduism
- tamil
- balinese
- ritual
- touch
- body
- religion and touch
- darshan
- presence
- absence
- extra-sensory
Welch/Religion, Death, 7. 'Sounding out Death’: Academic and Professional Viewpoints
Uploaded September, 2024
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- book chapter
- religion death and the senses
- sound
- hearing/listening
- death
- ritual
- language
- grief
- folk practices
- emotions
- auditory
- soundscape
- music therapy
- great britain
- psychotherapy
- death rituals
- dying
Welch/Religion, Death, 8. Sounding her Death Ballads: Funeral Songs as my Mother’s Final Words
Uploaded September, 2024
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- book chapter
- religion death and the senses
- auditory
- sound
- death
- listening
- autoethnography
- grief
- music
- experience
- performance
- interpretation
Welch/Religion, Death, 9. Food for the Dead, Food for the Living
Uploaded September, 2024
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- book chapter
- religion death and the senses
- food and religion
- death
- bereavement
- funerals
- social relations
- community
- ritual
- sharedness
Welch/Religion, Death, 10. Tasting the Dead
Uploaded September, 2024
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- book chapter
- religion death and the senses
- death rituals
- cannibalism
- indigenous traditions
- early modern europe
- medicinal practice
- mummia
- corpse
- ingestion
- food and religion

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