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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"funerals"”.
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Stoep funerals : a Challenge to Pastoral Care
… their defunct members especially at times of funerals. In the absence of a pragmatic pastoral method of how to deal with defunct members when they die, the church has devised a church policy which adds to the already experienced pain and grief of mourners. The criteria in the policy stipulates …
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Wild American crows use funerals to learn about danger
… of Washington Abstract Wild American crows use funerals to learn about danger Kaeli Swift Chair of Supervisory Committee: Dr. John Marzluff School of Environmental and Forest Sciences While a growing number of animals demonstrate seemingly ritualistic behaviors around the death or body of a …
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Play for Mortal Stakes: Funerals as Modernist Acts of Fiction
<p>The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the ritualization of death in British literature of the interwar period and its implication for narrative and genre. The authors under consideration include poets of the Great War (Robert Graves, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, the Sitwells), and …
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The 'Body Politic': Russian Funerals and the Politics of Representation, 1841-1921
… shift occurred in official attitudes towards funerals with Nicholas I's 1841 decree regulating funeral costs and practices in the two capitals, yet I assert that the fear of social and political instability that inspired the reactionary tsar's actions had no substantial basis in fact until the …
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Performing death: Celebrity women’s funerals and the emotional public sphere in late imperial Russia
Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Weeping at the grave, we make our song : Alleluia - Lament and thanksgiving in Church of England funerals
The thesis considers the changing nature of funerals carried in England over the last twenty years and a possible response by Church of England ministers. Those changes are outlined in terms of the changes in venue of funerals, the changes in content and the changes in officials conducting …
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Liturgy and death : an examination of the pastoral and theological issues relating to funerals, with special reference to selected funerary rites
… agnosticism and non-belief are increasing, funerals are probably the most common occasions upon which people without formal (or informal) religious belief meet the services of the Christian Church. There is a growing call for alternative funeral provision. This thesis offers a theological …
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The South African township funeral : a 'site of resistance' of HIV and AIDS that promotes leading causes of life
… Gugulethu, South Africa. By exploring township funerals of the apartheid past in relation to funerals resulting from the AIDS epidemic, despite what many construe as decay and death, ample evidence of resiliency and life will be demonstrated.
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"When God Takes Away": Gendered Death Customs in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
… conveyed the status of the deceased through funerals, burials, gravestones, commemoration, and mourning. But these customs greatly differed according to gender, both in what they consisted of and who was responsible for carrying them out. This thesis examines wills, diaries, correspondence, …
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the grief and bereavement of the Eersterust community
… associations were shown for changes of funerals practices and less support received (p=0.023). The pandemic grief scale (PGS) found a complicated grief incidence of 1.9%, whilst 18.5% of participants expressed counselling needs. Five themes emerged from the qualitative data analysis: …
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Clergywomen and Grief: Local Church Pastors and Their Experiences
… specifically as it related to officiating "hard funerals" for non-family members. Using a Narrative approach, the researcher interviewed 11 clergywomen. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed. Three main themes emerged. The predominant theme was Overarching …
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Death Positive: An Analysis of an Authenticity Movement
… wide variety of death related services, such as funerals and cremations, in order to prevent or eradicate decay. Problems in death management, such as a history of inauthenticity and lack of transparency, have led to dissatisfaction in care. As a result of the inauthenticity of services, the …
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Being Mandinga, Being Muslim: Transnational Debates on Personhood and Religious Identity in Guinea -Bissau and Portugal
… circumcision, Islamic healing, pilgrimage, and funerals. It is also creating tensions between men and women, elders and youth, and between ""traditionalists""---those who practice a syncretic version of Islam---and those who uphold Islam as practiced in Saudi Arabia as a ""truer"" or ""purer"" …
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Agency, Households, and the Practice of Li (Social and Ritual Protocols): Paper-Offerings in Rural Shandong, North China
A common sight at Chinese funerals is the presence of vibrantly coloured and elaborately designed paper-offerings used as spiritual gifts to gods, ancestors, and ghosts, in funerals and religious ceremonies. The ubiquity and continuity of this practice in China suggests that the use of …
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Re-imagining family photography through Zanele Muholi’s lens.
… of the LGBTQI community, capturing scars, funerals and celebrates same-sex tenderness. The study therefore questions the definition of what family photography is when considering the photographed LGBTQI community that Zanele Muholi portrays, and aims to expand understandings of this genre …
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A comparative study of hospice vs nonhospice nurses' attitudes toward death and dying and level of death anxiety
… the hospice and nonhospice groups. The number of funerals attended was also influential in shaping a more positive attitude toward death and dying for the nonhospice group; The category of the dying person was related to death anxiety for the nonhospice group. No significant correlation was found …
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Scripture as Architecture
… and ministries; and accommodates weddings, funerals, and baptisms. These functions are performed in obedience to the Word of God. They are expressions of Scripture. In the past, the church building itself expressed Scripture. The cruciform plan of the great cathedrals was the most profound …
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You Can Go Home, But Only to Visit: Nostalgia and the Personal Essay
… to the Midwest -- Holidays, family reunions, and funerals.
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uBuntu and certainty in commercial contracting: A study of burial societies in Cape Town
… savings groups (stokvels) used to finance funerals in indigenous communities. The parties agree to make monetary and non monetary contributions in exchange for assistance upon death or bereavement of their families. They were formed to mitigate costs associated with upholding the cultural …
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