The Public Face of Death: Mapping the Social Impact of Religious Beliefs
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2017) | Viewed by 24347
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Religions takes a comparative look at the public face of death and the afterlife.
For many people, apart from state ceremonies or the public mourning of popular celebrities, the rituals surrounding death and beliefs about life after death belong to the private sphere of home, family and dear friends. However, it can be seen that beliefs, rituals, mourning and memorialization do indeed have an impact on the world beyond the home. How might such interactions help us to understand the relationship between religion and public life? What bearing do beliefs concerning the afterlife have on the broader society? We invite papers, written from either historical or contemporary perspectives, that explore the many dimensions of the ways in which religious approaches to death and the afterlife intersect with the social and communal life of people.
Dr. Angela Sumegi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- death
- afterlife
- funeral
- mourning
- religion and public life
- comparative religion
- ritual
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