Greening Death - Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth

Informationen zum Autor Suzanne Kelly, PhD, is an independent scholar whose work spans the topics of the environment, feminism, sex, and death. She writes and farms in New York's Hudson Valley. Klappentext Over the last fifteen years! people have been slowly waking up to the toxic and alienating practices that have come to make up the American Way of Death. Greening Death explores this awakening! arguing that beyond the greener and more cost-efficient practices of the Green Burial Movement lies an even greater promise-tying us back to the earth. Zusammenfassung Over the last fifteen years, people have been slowly waking up to the toxic and alienating practices that have come to make up the American Way of Death. Greening Death explores this awakening, arguing that beyond the greener and more cost-efficient practices of the Green Burial Movement lies an even greater promise—tying us back to the earth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Waking UpPART ONE1. Apart from Nature2. Dead Bodies that Matter3. Wrath of the CorpsePART TWO4. Reclaiming Knowledge5. Renewing Meaning6. Restoring Our Relationship to the Land 8. Obstacles and Other Challenges9. Mobilizing the EthicEpilogue - Heeding the Light, "Feeding the Green"

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Kelly, Kelly Suzanne
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2015
• EAN: 9781442241565
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-4156-5
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SELF-HELP / Green Lifestyle, SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Coping with death & bereavement, Green lifestyle & self-sufficiency, Self-sufficiency and ‘green’ lifestyle, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, Biodegradable;Deathcare;Earth-Friendly;Green Burial Movement