Sacred cows: Exploring contemporary idolatry

Walter, Tony

Zondervan Pub. House

'Insightful and refreshing.' - Professor Dennis Klass, Webster University Religion Department, St. Louis, USA 'A tour de force.' - Dr Colin Murray Parkes, OBE, MD, FRCPsych, President of CRUSE Some societies and some individuals find a place for their dead, others leave them behind. In recent years, researchers, professionals and bereaved people themselves have struggled with this. Should the bond with the dead be continued or broken? What is clear is that the grieving individual is not left in a social vacuum but has to struggle with expectations from self, family, friends, professionals and academic theorists. This ground-breaking book looks at the social position of the bereaved. They find themselves caught between the living and the dead, sometimes searching for guidelines in a de-ritualized society that has few to offer, sometimes finding their grief inappropriately pathologised and policed. At its best, bereavement care offers reassurance, validation, and freedom to talk where the client has previously encountered judgmentalism. In this unique book, Tony Walter applies sociological insights to one of the most personal of human situations. On Bereavement is aimed at students on medical, nursing, counselling and social work courses that include bereavement as a topic. It will also appeal to sociology students with an interest in death, dying and mortality.

On Bereavement (Facing Death)

Parenting & Relationships

Open University Press

(Open University Press) Univ. of Reading, UK. Focuses on the social position of the bereaved. Applies sociological insights and discusses how the bereaved find themselves caught between the living and the dead, searching for guidelines, and finding their grief pathologized and policed. For students and counselors. Softcover, hardcover also available.

On Bereavement: The Culture of Grief (Facing Death)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Open Univ Pr

Considering the subject of funerals, this book looks at the principles behind the rites, the memorial ground and the cost of funerals. The author relates his own personal experiences in coping with his own father's funeral.

Funerals: And How to Improve Them

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Hodder&Stoughton

Talking about death is now fashionable, but how should we talk? Who should we listen to - priests, doctors, cousellors, or ourselves? Has psychology replaced religion in telling us how to die? This provocative book takes a sociological look at the revival of interest in death, focusing on the hospice movement and bereavement counselling. It will be required reading for anyone interested in the sociology of death and caring for the dying, the dead or bereaved.

The Revival of Death

Routledge

The current revival of interest in death seeks ultimate authority in the individual self. This is the first book to comprehensively examine this revival and relate it to theories of modernity and postmodernity.

Basic Income: Freedom from Poverty, Freedom to Work (Ideas in Progress)

Business & Money

Marion Boyars

A long way from home: A sociological exploration of contemporary idolatry

Religion & Spirituality

Paternoster Press

The Green Bay Packers were in the midst of establishing themselves as a National Football League power in 1929 when John Walter took a summer job at his hometown newspaper, the Green Bay Press-Gazette. He soon would have a front-row seat to the Packers' first stretch of glory years while navigating the challenges of becoming an adult during the Great Depression. Tony Walter, like his father a former Press-Gazette sports editor, combines his own narrative with John Walter's personal diaries and newspaper columns to provide a first-hand account of life in the 1930s and a behind-the-scenes look at the fledgling NFL. Pro Football Hall of Fame members Curly Lambeau, Don Hutson, Cal Hubbard, Johnny (Blood) McNally, Clarke Hinkle, Mike Michalske, and Arnie Herber not only were topics of John Walter's reporting, some even became personal friends.

The Packers, My Dad, and Me: A Family Legacy That Fed a National Obsession

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

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