Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology, Buchhandlung Heesen

Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology
	Nienke P.M. Fortuin The search for meaning in later life LIT Verlag, 2020, 312 Seiten, Broschur, 978-3-643-91308-1 34,90 EUR	Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology Volume 6 An empirical exploration of religion and death The search for meaning in later life: An empirical exploration of religion and death draws on thorough qualitative and quantitative research among older Dutch adults. The scarcity of vital narratives of ageing and the fragmentation of religious `grand narratives' appear to complicate their search for meaning. Moreover, increased longevity and the medicalisation of death challenge many older adults to decide about the right timing of death. This study qualitatively and quantitatively explores narratives of ageing and of religion expressed by older Dutch adults and their attitudes toward death, euthanasia and life prolongation. Nienke P. M. Fortuin is a researcher at the chair of Empirical and Practical Religious Studies of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
	Brenda Mathijssen Making sense of death Lit Verlag, 2017, 328 Seiten, Broschur, 978-3-643-90867-4 34,90 EUR	Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology Volume 5 Ritual practices and situational beliefs of the recently bereaved in the Netherlands . This book on death rites and situational beliefs in the Netherlands offers valuable insight in the ways in which the recently bereaved make sense of a death. It shows how people seek and create meaning by reinventing ritual repertoires and by re-imagining afterlife beliefs. Attention is given to the changing role of religion, the co-creation of personalised funerals, and to innovation in cremation and remembrance practices. By demonstrating how people transform their relationship with the deceased through material practices, this study emphasises the widely-overlooked dynamics of continuing bonds. Brenda Mathijssen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Reading (UK). She did her doctoral research at Radboud University in Nijmegen (The Netherlands), where she is affiliated to the Centre for Thanatology.
	Anne Kjaersgaard Funerary Culture and the Limits of Secularization in Denmark LIT Verlag, 2017, 192 Seiten, Broschur, 978-3-643-90964-0 34,90 EUR	Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology Volume 4 Considered one of the most irreligious countries in the world, in spite of continued religious affiliation of the majority of the population, Denmark is an important case to explore the limits of secularization. This study challenges the secularization thesis from the perspective of lived religion, innovatively examining death-related behaviour and hitherto overlooked religion in relation to organ donation, churchyard design, grave visiting rituals and graveyard photographs. Anne Kjærsgaard is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Practical Theology and Church History, School of Society and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. She conducted her doctoral research at the Centre for Thanatology, Radboud University, The Netherlands.
	Claudia Venhorst Muslims Ritualising Death in the Netherlands Death rites in a small town context. LIT Verlag, 2013, 168 Seiten, Broschur, 978-3-643-90351-8 29,90 EUR	Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology Volume 3 This study on the common practice of Islamic death rites in the Netherlands affords valuable insights in the lived religion of Muslims. Particularly in a small town context, marked by migration and diversity, Muslims are challenged to re-imagine and reinvent their ritual repertoires. This results in dynamic ritual practices that are the product of vibrant negotiation processes, in which rites interact with ritual actors and their (changing) contexts. These emerging ritual repertoires and their dynamics are widely overlooked in the study of an institutionalised, traditional religion like Islam. Inhaltsverzeichnis
	Thomas Quartier Die Grenze des Todes Ritualisierte Religiosität im Umgang mit den Toten LIT Verlag, 2011, 181 Seiten, Broschur, 978-3-643-11068-8 19,90 EUR	Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology Volume 2: Die Konfrontation mit dem Tod ist eine Quelle der Religiosität. Auch wenn viele klassische Deutungsmuster ihre Selbstverständlichkeit verloren haben, bleiben die entscheidenden Momente im Umgang mit den Toten religiös gefärbt. Diese Religiosität unterscheidet sich von früheren Formen. Sowohl bei der Bestattung als auch bei der Trauer ist von einer personalisierten Form die Rede, die nicht so sehr als feststehender Inhalt sondern als Ritual zugänglich ist. In diesem Buch wird der Versuch unternommen, ritualisierter Religiosität im Umgang mit den Toten auf die Spur zu kommen. Anhand verschiedener Explorationen in den Niederlanden - einem stark säkularisierten Land, in dem zugleich viele neue Rituale zu beobachten sind - wird die Frage gestellt, wie heutige Menschen innerhalb und außerhalb religiöser Institutionen die Grenze des Todes überschreiten Inhaltsverzeichnis Thomas Quartier (1972) doziert Ritual- und Liturgiewissenschaft an der Radboud Universität Nijmegen und arbeitet am dortigen Centre for Thanatology
	Changing European Death Ways LIT Verlag, 256 Seiten, Broschur, 978-3-643-90067-8 24,90 EUR	Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology Volume 1: In this volume scholars in the broad, interdisciplinary field of thanatology afford valuable insights in changing European death ways. The first part presents studies on a conceptual level for various aspects of death studies. In a second segment different European societies are compared on a national level, while in the final part religious beliefs, attitudes, practices and other worldview-related issues are covered. In this book countries, disciplines and worldviews meet, providing a framework and starting a profound comparative dialogue on challenges the field is confronted with. A framework, we also hope that will be expanded by many scholars and be useful for practitioners. The Centre for Thanatology (Radboud University Nijmegen) conducts research into socio-cultural and religious aspects of death, dying and bereavement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Eric Venbrux, Thomas Quartier, Claudia Venhorst, Brenda Mathijssen (Eds.)