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How do our ideas about dying influence the way we live? Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country-and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of the inevitable end. In this book a preeminent and eminently wise writer on death and dying proposes a new way of understanding our last transition. A fresh exploration of the final passage through life and perhaps through death, his work deftly interweaves historical and contemporary experiences and reflections to demonstrate that we are always on our way. Drawing on a remarkable range of observations-from psychology, anthropology, religion, biology, and personal experience-Robert Kastenbaum re-envisions life's forward-looking progress, from early-childhood bedtime rituals to the many small rehearsals we stage for our final separation. Along the way he illuminates such moments and ideas as becoming a "corpsed person," going down to earth or up in flames, respecting or abusing (and eating) the dead, coping with "too many dead," conceiving and achieving a "good death," undertaking the journey of the dead, and learning to live through the scrimmage of daily life fully knowing that Eternity does not really come in a designer flask. Profound, insightful, often moving, this look at death as many cultures await it or approach it enriches our understanding of life as a never-ending passage.

Future life. --- Death --- Afterlife --- Eternal life --- Life, Future --- Life after death --- Eschatology --- Eternity --- Immortality --- Near-death experiences --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects. --- Religious aspects --- Psychology --- after death. --- afterlife. --- anthropology. --- anxiety. --- aztecs. --- bedtime rituals. --- biology. --- black death. --- bones. --- burial rituals. --- burial. --- cannibalism. --- cemetery. --- childhood. --- cloning. --- comparative religion. --- corpse. --- cryostasis. --- dead bodies. --- death. --- dying. --- folk belief. --- funerals. --- gerontology. --- good death. --- healthcare. --- immortality. --- life after death. --- mass casualties. --- mass death. --- medicine. --- mourning. --- myth. --- nonfiction. --- psychology. --- religion. --- ritual. --- sociology. --- virtual reality.

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Rituals, although seemingly traditional and fixed, a re v ery m uch contextualand subject to change. Rituals do not exist and are not performed in a vacuum,and are not independent of time and place. They are deeply influenced by thecultural, social, economic, and political contexts in which they appear. Trendsin culture also lead to ritual trends. Therefore, rituals are a dynamic field, whichis reflected in this Special Issue of Religions regarding "Exploring RitualFields Today".

form-of-life --- monastic spirituality --- ritual practice --- ritual transfer --- satī --- widow-burning --- India --- ritual criticism --- chronotopicity --- adaptive reuse --- church architecture --- ritual --- liturgy --- funeral --- ritual dynamics --- space --- boundaries --- cemetery --- religious groups --- minority groups --- arena --- pluralization --- cocreation --- ritualizing --- childbirth --- pregnancy --- spirituality --- meaning making --- embodiment --- deconsecration --- desecration --- consecration --- profanation --- church buildings --- sacred space --- church reuse --- altar --- Roman Catholic Church --- canon law --- rituals --- hospice --- cultural analysis --- good death --- pilgrimage --- institutional religion --- routes --- sacred places --- landscape --- agency --- power --- entrepreneurs --- Europe --- n/a --- satī

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In our contemporary period of human mobility and global capitalism, political identifications are being configured in multiple sites beyond the nation-state. The text's theoretical innovation is to analyze what happens at work in terms of larger processes of political belonging. In particular, it examines how the recognitions and reciprocities entailed by care work affect the political belonging of new African migrants in the United States.

Caregivers. --- Home Care Services. --- Foreign workers, African --- Caregivers --- Home care services --- United States. --- United States. --- Affordable Care Act. --- African American history. --- African migration. --- Washington DC. --- aging. --- care labor. --- cultural capital. --- death. --- dignity. --- domestic service. --- exclusion. --- flexible workforce. --- foreclosure. --- good death. --- health insurance. --- home care. --- home death. --- home ownership. --- house-building. --- humiliation. --- inheritance. --- interdependence. --- kinship. --- labor market. --- mortgages. --- racialization. --- regulations. --- retirement. --- sick leave. --- social mobility. --- social networks. --- transnationalism.

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Monasticism and religious orders --- Extreme unction --- Viaticum --- Pastoral medicine --- Church work with the sick --- Sick --- History --- Catholic Church --- Pastoral counseling of --- Liturgy --- 265.72 --- 253:362.1 --- Ziekenzalving: bezoek aan zieken en stervenden --- Pastoraal voor zieken, ouderen en stervenden --- 253:362.1 Pastoraal voor zieken, ouderen en stervenden --- 265.72 Ziekenzalving: bezoek aan zieken en stervenden --- Unction --- Last rites (Sacraments) --- Lord's Supper --- Annointing --- Anointing --- Sacramentals --- Holy oils --- Ill persons --- Persons --- Diseases --- Patients --- Last sacraments --- Unction, Extreme --- Sacraments --- Reservation --- Camillians --- Catholic Church. --- Ministros de los Enfermos Agonizantes --- Agonizants --- Ministri degli infermi --- Fathers of the Good Death --- Camilianos --- Congregación de Hermanos Ministros de los Enfermos y Mártires de la Caridad --- Ordem dos Ministros dos Enfermos --- Ordine dei ministri degli infermi --- Ordine di san Camillo --- Ordine camilliano --- Camilliani --- Chierici regolari ministri degli infermi --- Ordine di S. Camillo --- Order of St. Camillus --- Order of Clerics Regular, Ministers to the Sick --- Camilliens --- Ordre des serviteurs des malades --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Monasticism and religious orders - History --- Extreme unction - History - 17th century --- Viaticum - History - 17th century --- Pastoral medicine - Catholic Church --- Church work with the sick - Catholic Church --- Sick - Pastoral counseling of - History - 17th century