Ultimate Ambiguities
：Investigating Death and Liminality
Publication subTitle ：Investigating Death and Liminality
Author： Berger Peter;Kroesen Justin
Publisher： Berghahn Books
Publication year： 2015
E-ISBN: 9781782386100
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781782386094
Subject： B846 变态心理学、病态心理学、超意识心理学
Keyword： 社会学,心理学
Language： ENG
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Description
Periods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality. Yet, many volumes on death in the social sciences and humanities do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these "ultimate ambiguities," assuming they can pose a threat to social relationships because of the disintegrating forces of death, but they are also crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life. Contributors explore death and liminality from an interdisciplinary perspective and present a global range of historical and contemporary case studies outlining emotional, cognitive, artistic, social, and political implications.