Religion, Death and the Senses
Christina Welch [+–]
University of Winchester
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European erotic death art, and British and Irish cadaver sculptures speaks to this. She gained her PhD in 2005 exploring the role of popular visual representation in the construction of North American Indian and Western Alternative Spiritual identities, and has continued to explore issues around indigeneity and identity construction, most recently writing about the Garifuna of St Vincent.
Over the past 14 years Christina has led the Masters degree in Death, Religion and Culture, teaching many death professionals from as funeral directors and death doulas, to
embalmers and palliative are leads, as well as people just interested in death as a subject of academic study.
Jasmine Hazel Shadrack [+–]
Falmouth University/ University of Missouri / BIMM Berlin
This edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore 6 physical and 3 socio-cultural senses in relation to death and dying: the senses of sight, of smell, of sound, of taste, of touch, of movement, of decency, of humour, and of loss. Each sense section will comprise two chapters to provide
differing examples of how death and dying can be viewed through the lens of human physical and cultural senses. Chapters will include historical and contemporary examples of ways in which death, dying and grieving are inextricable from their physical sensual expressions and socio-cultural mores. Most books about death explore how death can be theorised, theologised, and philosophised, or attend to the particular needs of health professionals working in palliative or pastoral care, with little attention to how people engage with and attend to, death, dying and grief sensually. The uniqueness of this collection lies in two areas, firstly its deep engagement with a range of physical and socio-cultural sensual responses to death and dying, and secondly, through its contributors who are drawn from a wide spectrum of professional, practical, and theoretical expertise and scholarship in fields which continue to redefine our understanding of mortality.
Series: Religion and the Senses
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Kingsbury is a leading authority on Santa Muerte, being cited in the press, consulted by the media, and writing many peer-reviewed papers on the topic. Her current research examines gender, healing, power and death, as she is doing fieldwork with the female followers of the folk saint of death. She is currently Lecturer and Research Associate at the University of British Columbia.
Chapter 2
ethics. She is regularly published in edited collections and academic journals notably in
regard to religion, politics and the law, and was appointed honorary lecturer at Queens
University Belfast in 2017. Since 2012, she has been visiting lecturer at Trinity College
Dublin, Cardiff University and Leuven KU.
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
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Chapter 6
Chapter 7
European erotic death art, and British and Irish cadaver sculptures speaks to this. She gained her PhD in 2005 exploring the role of popular visual representation in the construction of North American Indian and Western Alternative Spiritual identities, and has continued to explore issues around indigeneity and identity construction, most recently writing about the Garifuna of St Vincent.
Over the past 14 years Christina has led the Masters degree in Death, Religion and Culture, teaching many death professionals from as funeral directors and death doulas, to
embalmers and palliative are leads, as well as people just interested in death as a subject of academic study.
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Archaeologists. Her PhD research focused on the associations between health and burial
status of medieval children, and she is currently working on several skeletal collections from nineteenth century Bristol.
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
actions.
Chapter 13
Funeral homes over the years and was a Funeral Director specialising in the provision of
environmentally conscious and unique, weird, and wonderful celebrations of life before
returning to education last year.
Chapter 14
European erotic death art, and British and Irish cadaver sculptures speaks to this. She gained her PhD in 2005 exploring the role of popular visual representation in the construction of North American Indian and Western Alternative Spiritual identities, and has continued to explore issues around indigeneity and identity construction, most recently writing about the Garifuna of St Vincent.
Over the past 14 years Christina has led the Masters degree in Death, Religion and Culture, teaching many death professionals from as funeral directors and death doulas, to
embalmers and palliative are leads, as well as people just interested in death as a subject of academic study.
school children can engage with commemoration at Holocaust sites (2021).
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18