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This book is a study of British attitudes towards and practices surrounding death. Davies provides a window into British life and insights into the foundational links between individuals and society, across the spectrum of traditionally religious views through to humanist and secular alternatives.

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This book is a study of British attitudes towards and practices surrounding death. Davies provides a window into British life and insights into the foundational links between individuals and society, across the spectrum of traditionally religious views through to humanist and secular alternatives.
Autorenporträt
Douglas J. Davies is Professor in the Study of Religion at Durham and Director of the Centre for Death and Life Studies. He trained in both anthropology and theology and has taught the study of religion for many years both at Nottingham and Durham Universities. His specialist interests and many publications include work on death, funerary ritual, and afterlife beliefs, as well as the Mormon and Anglican religious traditions and theoretical questions of the links between anthropology and theology, with a special interest in how the human desire for meaning becomes a sense of salvation.