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within some of todays Chinese societies include wailing and white banners placed upon the home to indicate death; wearing all whit...
This essay discusses various views and fears associated with death in Western societies. The author addresses funeral rituals as ...
and that death impacts the body and soul, the impact differs based on the religious practices. Islam believes that ones sou...
spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...
As they enter, the dip finger tips of their right hand into a font of water that has been consecrated by a priest and they make th...
In five pages this paper examines the anthropological text in an evaluation of the myths and rituals the author describes....
In five pages the violence associated with ritual is examined in this comparative analysis of these stories by Kaplan and Jackson....
a woman gives her child is "incorporated into the framework of the natural," rather than thought of as a matter of choice, which w...
to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...
to "stare at anyone," but it is particularly rude to "stare at women" ("Pakistan Local Customs"). This cultural prohibition is str...
Fields(Pearce, 2002). From early Greek accounts, then, one could easily conclude several things about the ordinary Grecian...
death (Religion and Death). According to Greek philosophy, the god Hermes led the soul of the person to the river Styx which sep...
In six pages the Eskimo death ritual is examined within the context of Purnell's Model for Cultural Competence. Seven sources are...
In 6 pages this British cultural consideration examines the funeral rites and mourning rituals associated with the process of deat...
Orr (2000), peoples closely related to Alaskan Eskimos occupy the vast expanse of the Canadian Arctic and Greenland, and to the we...
In three pages this paper discusses daily worship practices, the death ritual, and Mohammad's role as profit in Islam. Two source...
through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death a...
In eight pages the ways these religions deal with dying and death through ritual and corpse disposition are compared and contraste...
3500 years ago. Zhonghua, the Chinese name for the country, means "central land," a reference to the Chinese belief that their cou...
Ravens and Eagles (which he states are known as Wolves in some localities). Emmons (21) identifies a third moiety among the Sanya...
In six pages Durkheim's ritual perspectives are examined in terms of their implications when applied to Eliade's arguments on ritu...
In five pages this paper examines 'jumping the broom' and other rituals that were part of the 19th century American slave marriage...
it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness...
In this paper consisting of eleven pages an eyewitness account of a Vodun or Voodoo 'day of the dead' ritual is simulated and back...
17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...
which the individual is supposed to pass, the doctors are usually good at predicting whether a dying person has a few days or a fe...
language can prove to be difficult when seeking to correlation language and the development of a wider understanding of the world ...
This paper is in outline form and pertains to literature promoting understanding of the nature of the god Siva in Hinduism. ...
(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...
topic has led noted criminologists to conclude that "...executions have no discernible effect on homicide rates" (Goertzel). There...