Preaching Death
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4813-1493-0 (ISBN)
Christians traditionally have had something substantive and important to say about death and afterlife. Yet the language and imagery used in sermons about life and death have given way to language designed to comfort and celebrate.In Preaching Death, Lucy Bregman tracks the changes in Protestant American funerals over the last one hundred years. Early-twentieth-century "natural immortality" doctrinal funeral sermons transitioned to an era of "silence and denial," eventually becoming expressive, biographical tributes to the deceased. The contemporary death awareness movement, with the "death as a natural event" perspective, has widely impacted American culture, affecting health care, education, and psychotherapy and creating new professions such as hospice nurse and grief counselor. Bregman questions whether this transition—which occurred unobserved and without conflict—was inevitable and what alternative paths could have been chosen. In tracing this unique story, she reveals how Americans' comprehension of death shifted in the last century—and why we must find ways to move beyond it.
Lucy Bregman is Professor of Religion at Temple University. Her previous publications include Death and Dying, Spirituality and Religions: A Study of the Death Awareness Movement; Beyond Silence and Denial: Death and Dying Reconsidered; and First Person Mortal: Personal Narratives of Illness, Dying and Grief. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Part I: What Christians Used to Say about Death
1. A Changeover of Messages and Images
2. What Is a Christian Funeral?
3. Funeral Theologies of Death
4. Heaven as Home
5. Heaven as Journey
6. Natural Immortality
7. The Lord's Will
Part II: The Age of Silence and Denial
8. "Please Omit Funeral"
9. The Challenge of New Theologies
10. Death as Enemy
Part III: What Came Next
11. New Words for Death, Dying, and Grief
12. The Triumph of the Biographical
Part IV: What Might Have Been
13. Two Alternatives
14. What Might Have Been—Lament
15. The Eclipse of Poetry
Part V: Conclusion
16. What Christians No Longer Want to Say about Death
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.01.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | hardcover does not include jacket |
| Verlagsort | Waco |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4813-1493-9 / 1481314939 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4813-1493-0 / 9781481314930 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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