Chinese Death Rituals In Singapore
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Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore
Author | : Tong Chee Kiong |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2004-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781135798437 |
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Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore throws light upon the Chinese perception of death and how they cope with its eventuality. In the seeming mass of religious rituals and beliefs, it suggests that there is an underlying logic to the rituals. This in turn leads Kiong to examine the interrelationship between death and the socioeconomic value system of China as a whole.
Dangerous Blood Refined Souls
Author | : Chee Kiong Tong |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Chinese |
ISBN | : UOM:39015014551934 |
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Chinese American Death Rituals
Author | : Sue Fawn Chung,Priscilla Wegars |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0759107343 |
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They have looked to individual beliefs, customs, religion, and environment for this resolution. This volume expertly describes and analyzes cultural retention and transformation in the after-death rituals of Chinese American communities."--Jacket.
Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China
Author | : Paul Williams,Patrice Ladwig |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2012-04-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781107003880 |
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Death rituals and Buddhist imagery of the afterlife have been central to the development and spread of Buddhism as a social and textual tradition. Bringing together ethnographic, historical and theoretically informed accounts, the book presents in-depth studies of the Buddhist funeral cultures of mainland Southeast Asia and China.
Dying to Meet You Confessions of a Funeral Director
Author | : Angjolie Mei |
Publsiher | : Epigram Books |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2019-01-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9789814757492 |
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Why would someone leave a shining career in management to work among the dead? Angjolie Mei, funeral director and "life celebrant", recounts how the death of her father—a veteran known as ‘The Coffin King’ in the funeral industry—prompted this dramatic choice. What exactly happens during embalming? What kind of post-death restoration is needed for second-degree burn victims? What are the little-known facts surrounding suicide in Singapore? Angjolie offers the insider’s view on these and other aspects of an industry usually shrouded in mystery, and reflects on how her perceptions of death, and life, have changed since she chose this extraordinary profession.
Religion Modernization
Author | : Seong Chee Tham |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Chinese |
ISBN | : UOM:39015012869684 |
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Death Across Cultures
Author | : Helaine Selin,Robert M. Rakoff |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2019-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783030188269 |
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Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. It includes chapters on countries in Africa, Asia, South America, as well as indigenous people in Australia and North America. These chapters address changes in death rituals and beliefs, medicalization and the industry of death, and the different ways cultures mediate the impacts of modernity. Comparative studies with the west and among countries are included. This book brings together global research conducted by anthropologists, social scientists and scholars who work closely with individuals from the cultures they are writing about.
Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China
Author | : James L. Watson,Evelyn Sakakida Rawski |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0520060814 |
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During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional control over the written word as instrumental in promoting cultural homogenization; others, the manipulation of the performing arts. This volume, comprised of essays by both anthropologists and historians, furthers this important discussion by examining the role of death rituals in the unification of Chinese culture.