Biblical Mourning : Ritual And Social Dimensions

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Table Of Contents
Introduction
1. Mourning The Dead
2. Petitionary Mourning
3. Mourning In Other Contexts
4. The Constraints On Mourning Rites
5. The Sanctioned Mixing Of Mourning And Rejoicing
Conclusion

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Description
A comprehensive analysis of the ritual dimensions of biblical mourning rites, this book also seeks to illuminate mourning’s social dimensions through engagement with anthropological discussion of mourning, from Hertz and van Gennep to contemporaries such as Metcalf and Huntington and Bloch and Parry.

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SKU (ISBN): 9780199264865
ISBN10: 0199264864
Saul Olyan
Binding: Cloth Text
Published: March 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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