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EMOTION, IDENTITY AND DEATH

Emotion, Identity and Death

Mortality Across Disciplines

Edited by

DOUGLAS J. DAVIES
Durham University, UK

CHANG-WON PARK
Durham University, UK and Sogang University, South Korea

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Copyright 2012 Douglas J. Davies and Chang-Won Park

Douglas J. davies and Chang-Won Park have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Emotion, identity and death : mortality across disciplines.

1. Death--Psychological aspects. 2. Funeral rites and ceremonies.
I. Davies, Douglas James. II. Park, Chang-Won, Dr.
155.9'37-dc23

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Emotion, identity, and death : mortality across disciplines / edited by Douglas J. Davies and Chang-Won Park.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-2414-7 (hardcover) 1. DeathSocial aspects. 2. DeathPsycholgical aspects. 3. DeathReligious aspects. 4. Emotions. 5. Identity (Psychology) I. Davies, Douglas James. II. Park, Chang-Won.

GT3150.E496 2012
306.9dc23

2011033888

ISBN 9781409424147 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315579221 (ebk)

Contents

Douglas J. Davies and Chang-Won Park

Tim Bullamore

Eva Jeppsson Grassman

Eva Reimers

Tim Hutchings

Arnar rnason

Tamara Kohn

Jacque Lynn Foltyn

Christina Marsden Gillis

Thomas Quartier

Meike Heessels

Mirjam Klaassens and Peter Groote

Eric Venbrux

Hyun-Ah Kim

Wolfgang Marx

John Troyer

List of Figures and Tables

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List of Contributors

Editors

Douglas J. Davies is Professor in the Study of Religion in the Department of Theology and Religion and Director of the Centre for Death and Life Studies at Durham University. His recent works in the area of death studies include Encyclopedia of Cremation (Ashgate 2005), A Brief History of Death (Blackwell 2005) and The Theology of Death (Continuum 2008), and on emotion, Emotion, Identity and Religion (Oxford University Press 2011). He holds the Oxford higher Doctorate of Letters, an Honorary Dr. Theol. of Uppsala University, and is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Chang-Won Park holds his PhD from Durham University (2009). He is currently Honorary Research Associate of the Centre for Death and Life Studies at Durham University and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Religion at Sogang University, South Korea. His recent works include Cultural Blending in Korean Death Rites: New Interpretive Approaches (Continuum 2010). His current research projects include an AHRC funded network project on emotion, identity and religious communities (200810), as well as the distinctive nature of Korean cremation funded by the South Korean Government (201011).

Contributors

Arnar rnason is a lecturer in social anthropology at Aberdeen University. He has carried out fieldwork in the UK, Japan and Iceland. His research interests are in the anthropology of death, emotion and subjectivity. His work has mostly focused on the politics of grief work. He has published widely on this topic, for example in Mortality, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institution and the British Journal of Sociology.

Tim Bullamore has written for the Daily Telegraph, The Times, Independent, Guardian and British Medical Journal. In 2008 he was joint winner of an international award from the Society of Professional Obituary Writers for his work in the Daily Telegraph, to which he contributes frequently. His first book was Fifty Festivals (1999), a history of the Bath International Music Festival. He has given several academic papers on the art of obituary writing and is now engaged on a doctoral study of the craft at Cardiff University.

Jacque Lynn Foltyn, PhD, is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences, National University, La Jolla, California. A social theorist, her research focuses on dying and death, fashion, beauty and the erotic, and media representations of the human body. As a scholarly expert, she has appeared on CBS National News/48 Hours and the BBC, and in the New York Times and fashion/lifestyle magazines. She guest edited a special issue of Mortality, The Corpse in Contemporary Culture (2008, 13.2), and is editor of/contributor to Fashions: Exploring Fashion through Culture (The Inter-Disciplinary Press 2010).

Christina Marsden Gillis (PhD, English Literature) is founding Associate Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley, and has organized, over a period of 16 years, numerous innovative programs on aging, death and dying. She has published in journals such as Death Studies, Journal of Medical Humanities, Bellevue Literary Review and Raritan. She edited Seeing the Difference: Conversations on Death and Dying in 2001; now retired from the university, her most recent book, published in 2008, is Writing on Stone, a meditation on loss and place.

Eva Jeppsson Grassman holds a chair as professor at NISAL (National Institute for the Study of Ageing and Later Life) at Linkping University. Her research spans diverse life course and aging issues, not least in connection with chronic illness and disability. Furthermore, she has conducted research in the area of care, notably spiritual care in the end of life phase, with focus on the role of the Church of Sweden. Some recent publications: E. Jeppsson Grassman and A. Whitaker (2007) End of life and dimensions of civil society. The Church of Sweden in a new geography of death, Mortality 12(3): 26180; E. Jeppsson Grassman (ed.) (2008) Att ldras med funktionshinder [Ageing with a Disability]. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Peter Groote works as a cultural geographer at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences of University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His main research interests are the meanings of places of death, disabilities and well-being, and cultural heritage. Major publications: Mirjam Klaassens, Peter Groote and Paulus Huigen, Roadside memorials from a geographical perspective,

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