Do Funerals Matter? - The Purposes and Practices of Death Rituals in Global Perspective

List of contents

1. Funerals—Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going 2. More Treasured Than Words: The Anchor of Significant Symbols 3. Getting Everybody Together: The Anchor of Gathered Community 4. Walk Out What You Can’t Talk Out: The Anchor of Ritual Action 5. Looking Back to Look Forward: The Anchor of Cultural Heritage 6. Taking the Dead to the Party: The Anchor of the Body’s Presence 7. North American Quests to Personalize Funeral Rituals 8. The Business of Funerals 9. Clinical Perspectives on the Value of Funerals 10. Farther Down the Road: Using Ritual in Grief Counseling

About the author

William G. Hoy, DMin, FT, has studied funeral rites for more than four decades, examining how they are used around the world to help mourners make sense of death and to negotiate the radical changes that come about in the aftermath of a loved person’s death. Dr. Hoy holds the Fellow in Thanatology (FT) advanced practice credential from the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Following more than 17 years leading a hospice bereavement program, since 2012 he has been clinical professor of medical humanities at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Summary

Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals have been; and where, especially in the Western world, they are going.

Product details

• Authors: William G. Hoy, William G. (Baylor University Hoy, Hoy William G.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2021
• EAN: 9781032019017
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3201901-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Social groups, Psychotherapy, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, Social groups, communities and identities