Dead in the Field

Utilizing Fieldwork to Explore the Historical Interpreting of Death Related Activity, and the Emotional Coping with Death

Authors

  • Christina Welch University of Winchester

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/firn.v8i2.127

Keywords:

bereavement, death, religion

Abstract

Chrisina Welch introduces this special issue of Fieldwork and Religion on religion, death and bereavement.

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Author Biography

  • Christina Welch, University of Winchester

    Dr Christina Welch is a senior lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Winchester where, amongst other subjects, she teaches on death, dying and bereavement; leading a Masters programme on death led her to start the University of Winchester Death Day Conferences which inform this volume. Her research interests lie in the area of religion and visual culture, and she is currently working on a book about late-Medieval English carved cadaver monuments.

References

Aries, P. 1980. The Hour of our Death. New York: Knopf.

Bauman, Z. 1992. Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies. Standford, CA: California University Press.

Chidester, D. 2002. Patterns of Transcendence: Religion, Death and Dying. Canada: Wadsworth Group.

Davies, D, 1997. Death, Ritual and Belief. London: Continuum.

Freud, S. 2003. Beyond the Pleasure Principle. London: Penguin Books.

Hertz, R. 2004. “A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death,” in, A. C. G. M. Robben, ed., Death, Mourning and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 197–212.

Walter, T. 1994. The Revival of Death. London: Routledge.

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Published

2013-11-26

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Editorial

License

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How to Cite

Welch, C. (2013). Dead in the Field: Utilizing Fieldwork to Explore the Historical Interpreting of Death Related Activity, and the Emotional Coping with Death. Fieldwork in Religion, 8(2), 127-132. https://doi.org/10.1558/firn.v8i2.127