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Informationen zum Autor Peter Berger is Associate Professor of Indian Religions and the Anthropology of Religion at the University of Groningen. His books include Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha (de Gruyter, 2015), The Modern Anthropology of India (co-ed with Frank Heidemann, Routledge, 2013) and Godroads: Modalities of Conversion in India (co-ed with Sarbeswar Sahoo, Cambridge University Press, 2020). Justin Kroesen is Professor of Art History at the University of Bergen (Norway) and specializes in the Material Culture of Christianity. He publishes on the history of art and architecture in medieval and early modern Europe. His books include Staging the Liturgy. The Medieval Altarpiece in the Iberian Peninsula (Peeters, 2009), and The Interior of the Medieval Village Church (co-authored with Regnerus Steensma, Peeters, 2012). Klappentext Periods 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. Zusammenfassung Although dying can be seen as the paradigm of liminality! because periods of transition are often associated with death! many volumes on death in the social sciences do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these "ultimate ambiguities" as crucial periods of creativity! change! and emergent aspects of social and religious life. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Peter Berger PART I: RITUALS Chapter 1. The Ambiguity of Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Materializations of the Dead among the Garo of Northeast India Erik de Maaker Chapter 2. Structures and Processes of Liminality: The Shape of Mourning among the Sora of Tribal India Piers Vitebsky Chapter 3. Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food: Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared Peter Berger Chapter 4. The Liminality of "Living Martyrdom": Suicide Bombers' Preparations for Paradise Pieter G. T. Nanninga PART II: CONCEPTS Chapter 5. Disappearance and Liminality: Argentina's Mourning of State Terror Antonius C.G.M. Robben Chapter 6. Three Dimensions of Liminality in the Context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals Roland Hardenberg Chapter 7. Death, Ritual, and Effervescence Peter Berger PART III: IMAGERIES Chapter 8. Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul? Post-Mortem Initiation in Medieval Shaiva Tantric Death Rites Nina Mirnig Chapter 9. Between Death and Judgement: Sleep as the Image of Death in Early Modern Protestantism Justin Kroesen and Jan R. Luth Chapter 10. Body and Soul Between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece Jan N. Bremmer Chapter 11. Death, Memory and Liminality. Rethinking Lampedusa's Later Life as Author and Aristocrat Yme B. Kuiper Notes on Contributors ...
