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A public health model for bereavement care: learnings from COVID-19 bereavement experiences in Ireland [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted bereavement care, posing risks of long-term physical and mental health consequences. To ensure the lived experience was captured during this challenging time, a national survey was conducted to examine ...
Elizabeth Weathers +4 more
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Between commerce and care: intimate personalization, authenticity, and the ambivalences of outsourcing funeral work [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyThe paper considers the way commercialization is negotiated in important consumption rituals such as funerals by mourners. Focusing on Italy, we start by providing data about funeral participation, and propose that there is a tension between affective ...
Roberta Sassatelli +3 more
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Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies, 2022 The juxtaposition and maintenance of inherited and indigenous rituals suggests there is something in each of those sources which are felt necessary to retain as both create and express identity and faith at the heart of the ritual processes.
Lizette Larson-Miller
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Approaching Religion, 2023 Based on extensive ethnography, this article investigates how contemporary Finnish hospice patients talk – or remain silent – about their own approaching death, and the imageries relating to death and the possible afterlife.
Maija Butters
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The Religious World of guthis: Three facets of Newār civilization, Nepal
European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 2021 Despite the impact of Hinduism and Tantric Buddhism, the religion of Jyāpu ‘farmers’ of the Newār ethnic group still presents features that do not fit in with these two ‘high religions’.
Gérard Toffin
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Ancestor worship in contemporary Japan
Японские исследования, 2022 This article examines the transformation of ancestor worship in the context of socio-political and religious conditions and identifies the characteristics of worship in contemporary Japanese society and the changes in the form of practices and functions ...
I. V. Avdiushenkova
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A place for traditional and customary practices in funerals during and post COVID-19: Insights from South Africa. [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2023 President Cyril Ramaphosa and his government declared a National State of Disaster, and banned large gatherings to help contain the spread of coronavirus on March 21, 2020.
Monicca Thulisile Bhuda +2 more
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World Development Sustainability, 2023 As a final act, families of the deceased strive to implement funeral rites that are befitting of their loved one. However, perceived obligatory adherence to an immutable culture, plus emulation, can compel families to carry out a costly funeral.
Ron Vave +2 more
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Социологический журнал, 2023 This article analyzes how potentially conflicting frames of grief and family operate in a number of English funerals. The data come from the 2010 Mass-Observation directive “Going to Funerals” which asked its panel of correspondents to write about the ...
Tony Walter, Tara Bailey
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Ancestor Worship in Contemporary Japan
Russian Japanology Review, 2023 This article examines the transformation of ancestor worship in the context of socio-political and religious conditions and identifies the characteristics of worship in contemporary Japanese society and the changes in the form of practices and functions ...
I. V. Avdiushenkova
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