{"product_id":"ultimate-ambiguities-investigating-death-and-liminality-9781782386094","title":"Ultimate Ambiguities: Investigating Death and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tPeriods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality. Yet, many volumes on death in the social sciences and humanities do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these “ultimate ambiguities,” assuming they can pose a threat to social relationships because of the disintegrating forces of death, but they are also crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life. Contributors explore death and liminality from an interdisciplinary perspective and present a global range of historical and contemporary case studies outlining emotional, cognitive, artistic, social, and political implications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“At the theoretical level, the volume certainly makes a strong argument for the enduring relevance of the sociological tradition from Durkheim to Turner. Robben’s article alone presents a most poignant illustration of the analytic power of liminality in a contemporary setting. Berger’s valiant argument for Durkheim’s much maligned concept of effervescence should be taken seriously, for it seems to open a rapprochement between structural and cognitive science approaches to ritual.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eUltimate Ambiguities: Investing Death and Liminality \u003cem\u003eis a valuable contribution to the often diffuse literature on religion and death\/dying given that the widely varying case studies share a common focus on ‘liminality explicitly in the context of death’. Editors Peter Berger and Justin Kroesen draw together a wide-ranging set of eleven primarily anthropological chapters. These offer rich and contextualized examples of beliefs, especially ritualization, from various traditions. Yet the key measure of this book’s success is theoretical, given its explicit focus on liminality… The book is a valuable resource… the editors deserve praise for putting together one of the most focused and valuable volumes in the death and dying sub-genre.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Reading Religion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“With studies ranging from the Sora of India to death rituals in Ancient Greece, this selection offers a comparative approach that reinforces previous theories while also challenging liminality as some unidentifiable location… Berger and Kroesen’s compilation is a most valuable addition to studies on liminality and death as it introduces key theoretical concepts through varied and intriguing case studies.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Religious Studies Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is a hugely interesting book that will be a very valuable contribution to the study of death in social science and the humanities.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Arnar Árnason\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Aberdeen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is an important volume dealing… with the always-complex ritualization of death in comparative perspective, critically reassessing the work of some of the classic authors in the social sciences and more particularly in anthropological debates, and offering new theoretical and empirical angles to better understand the ambiguities inherent to death, burial, and afterlife beliefs.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Francisco Ferrándiz\u003c\/strong\u003e, Spanish National Research Council\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePeter Berger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: RITUALS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Ambiguity of Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Materializations of the Dead among the Garo of Northeast India\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Erik de Maaker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Structures and Processes of Liminality: The Shape of Mourning among the Sora of Tribal India\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePiers Vitebsky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food: Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePeter Berger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Liminality of “Living Martyrdom”: Suicide Bombers’ Preparations for Paradise\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Pieter G. T. Nanninga\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: CONCEPTS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Disappearance and Liminality: Argentina’s Mourning of State Terror\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAntonius C.G.M. Robben\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Three Dimensions of Liminality in the Context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Roland Hardenberg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Death, Ritual, and Effervescence\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Peter Berger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: IMAGERIES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul? Post-Mortem Initiation in Medieval Shaiva Tantric Death Rites\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Nina Mirnig\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Between Death and Judgement: Sleep as the Image of Death in Early Modern Protestantism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Justin Kroesen and Jan R. Luth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Body and Soul Between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Jan N. Bremmer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Death, Memory and Liminality. Rethinking Lampedusa’s Later Life as Author and Aristocrat  \u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Yme B. 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