| Author | : S. N. Goenka |
| Publisher | : Vipassana Research Publications |
| Total Pages | : 179 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781681722993 |
The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi
| Author | : Mont Allen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2022-12-31 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1316510913 |
This book explores the disappearance of Greek mythic imagery from the Roman sarcophagi in the 3rd Century.
Death, Ritual and Belief
| Author | : Douglas Davies |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2017-11-02 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1474250971 |
Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of 'words against death' it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the many ways in which people have not let death have the last word, not simply in terms of funeral rites but also in memorials, graves, and in ideas of ancestors, souls, gods, reincarnation and resurrection, whether in the great religious traditions of the world or in more local customs. He also examines bereavement and grief, experiences of the presence of dead, near-death experiences, pet-death and the symbolic death played out in religious rites. Updated chapters have taken into account new research and include additional topics in this new edition, notably assisted dying, terrorism, green burial, material culture, death online, and the emergence of Death Studies as a distinctive field. Case studies range from Anders Breivik in Norway, to the Princess of Wales, and to the Rapture in the USA. A new perspective is also brought to his account of grief theories. Providing an introduction to key authors and authorities on death beliefs, bereavement, grief and ritual-symbolism, Death, Ritual and Belief is an authoritative guide to the perspectives of major religious and secular worldviews.
Medieval Death
| Author | : Paul Binski |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780801433153 |
In this richly illustrated volume, Paul Binski provides an absorbing account of the social, theological, and cultural issues involved in death and dying in Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the early sixteenth century. He draws on textual, archaeological, and art historical sources to examine pagan and Christian attitudes toward the dead, the aesthetics of death and the body, burial ritual, and mortuary practice. Illustrated throughout with fascinating and sometimes disturbing images, Binski's account weaves together close readings of a variety of medieval thinkers. He discusses the impact of the Black Death on late medieval art and examines the development of the medieval tomb, showing the changing attitudes toward the commemoration of the dead between late antiquity and the late Middle Ages. In one chapter, Binski analyzes macabre themes in art and literature, including the Dance of Death, which reflect the medieval obsession with notions of humility, penitence, and the dangers of bodily corruption. In another, he studies the progress of the soul after death through the powerful descriptions of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory in Dante and other writers and through portrayals of the Last Judgment and the Apocalypse in sculpture and large-scale painting.
Art and Spiritual Transformation
| Author | : Finley Eversole |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2009-05-26 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1594779252 |
The primal role of art in awakening and liberating the soul of humanity • Presents a seven-stage journey of transformation moving from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination • Provides a meditation practice to experience the spiritual energy embedded within art • Includes artists Alex Grey, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Walter Gaudnek, and others Art and Spiritual Transformation presents a seven-stage journey from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination that is possible through the world of art. Finley Eversole introduces a meditation practice that moves beyond the visual content of an art form in order to connect with its embedded spiritual energy, allowing the viewer to tap in to the deeper consciousness inherent in the artwork and awaken dormant powers in the depths of the viewer’s soul. Examining modern and postmodern artwork from 1945 onward, Eversole reveals the influences of ancient Egypt, India, China, and alchemy on this art. He draws extensively on philosophy, myth and symbolism, literature, and metaphysics to explain the seven stages of spiritual death and rebirth of the soul possible through art: the experience of self-loss, the journey into the underworld, the experience of the dark night of the soul, the conflict with and triumph over evil, the awakening of new life in the depths of being, and the return and reintegration of consciousness on a higher plane of being, resulting finally in ecstasy, transfiguration, illumination, and liberation. To illustrate these stages, Eversole includes works by abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko and modern visionary artists Alex Grey and Ernst Fuchs, among others, to reveal the powerful and liberating forces art contributes to the transformation and evolution of human consciousness.
Transformations of Myth Through Time
| Author | : Joseph Campbell |
| Publisher | : Harper Perennial |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1990-02-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780060964634 |
The renowned master of mythology is at his warm, accessible, and brilliant best in this illustrated collection of thirteen lectures covering mythological development around the world.
Book of the Dead
| Author | : Foy Scalf |
| Publisher | : Oriental Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Book of the dead |
| ISBN | : 9781614910381 |
Discover how the ancient Egyptians controlled their immortal destiny! This book, edited by Foy Scalf, explores what the Book of the Dead was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and what happened to it.
Myth
| Author | : Robert Alan Segal |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0198724705 |
This Very Short Introduction explores different approaches to myth from several disciplines, including science, religion, philosophy, literature, and psychology. In this new edition, Robert Segal considers both the future study of myth as well as the impact of areas such as cognitive science and the latest approaches to narrative theory.
Greening Death
| Author | : Suzanne Kelly |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2015-09-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1442241578 |
We once disposed of our dead in earth-friendly ways—no chemicals, biodegradable containers, dust to dust. But over the last 150 years death care has become a toxic, polluting, and alienating industry in the United States. Today, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of more sustainable and less disaffecting death care, reclaiming old practices in new ways, in a new age. Greening Death traces the philosophical and historical backstory to this awakening, captures the passionate on-the-ground work of the Green Burial Movement, and explores the obstacles and other challenges getting in the way of more robust mobilization. As the movement lays claim to greener, simpler, and more cost-efficient practices, something even more promising is being offered up—a tangible way of restoring our relationship to nature.
