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Religious studies --- Ancient history --- rites
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History --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Mourning customs
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History --- Coronations --- Rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Monarchy
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Inventions -- History --- Rites and ceremonies --- Manners and customs --- Civilization -- History
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Inventions -- History --- Rites and ceremonies --- Manners and customs --- Civilization -- History
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Civilization -- History --- Inventions -- History --- Rites and ceremonies --- Manners and customs
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Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the present, as in the past, less attention is given to the power of ritual to organize and effect transformation through its own dynamics. Breaking with convention, the contributors to this volume were asked to discuss ritual first and foremost in relation to itself, in its own right, and only then in relation to its socio-cultural context. The results attest to the variable capacities of rites to effect
Social sciences (general) --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Ritual. --- Ceremonial exchange.
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As the first historical study of East Germany's sepulchral culture, this book explores the complex cultural responses to death since the Second World War. Topics include the interrelated areas of the organization and municipalization of the undertaking industry; the steps taken towards a socialist cemetery culture such as issues of design, spatial layout, and commemorative practices; the propagation of cremation as a means of disposal; the wide-spread introduction of anonymous communal areas for the internment of urns; and the emergence of socialist and secular funeral rituals. The author ana
History --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death --- Sepulchral monuments --- Social aspects
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