Una arquitectura para la muerte

Una arquitectura para la muerte
Author: Andalusia (Spain). Dirección General de Arquitectura y Vivienda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 630
Release: 1993
Genre: Cemeteries
ISBN:

Destacados especialistas de todo el mundo debatieron en Sevilla sobre la historia y los aspectos urbanísticos, arquitectónicos, higiénicos y sociológicos de la arquitectura funeraria. La publicación tiene como finalidad concienciar a la sociedad andaluza sobre el valor patrimonial de nuestros cementerios y su riqueza artística y arquitectónica, histórica y antropológica.

Alone Before God

Alone Before God
Author: Pamela Voekel
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2002-08-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822329435

DIVPosits an underlying religious impetus for modernity in Mexico, claiming that the Catholic Church nursed a reform movement that ultimately effected many of the same changes as the Protestant Reformation./div

Symbolic Space

Symbolic Space
Author: Richard A. Etlin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1996-12-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780226220857

Richard A. Etlin demonstrates how the conceptual basis of the modern house and the physical layout of the modern city emerged from debates among theoretically innovative French architects of the eighteenth century. Examining a broad range of topics from architecture and urbanism to gardening and funerary monuments, he reconsiders eighteenth-century French architecture with regard to the ways in which it was informed by symbolic space. This book provides an accessible introduction to a century of architecture that transformed the classical forms of the Renaissance and Baroque periods into building types still familiar today.

Death on the Move

Death on the Move
Author: Philip J. Havik
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2018-04-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1527510743

This volume explores the different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, through deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives, silences, and constraints. It focuses on migrants from diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds in Portugal, Spain and Italy. It also includes reflections on Madagascar, Guinea-Bissau, East-Timor and Cuba. The thirteen chapters provide insights into epistemological issues, the trans-national circulation of bodies, spirits and rituals, migration, the placing of the dead and diverse funerary practices and perspectives. Privileging a multi-sited approach to death and migrations, this book draws on oral, archival and published sources to give visibility to populations that often live in liminal structural positions and transient worlds. By exploring the multifaceted dimensions of death and suffering among immigrant populations, it refocuses the debate on migration in Europe and beyond by highlighting under-researched issues such as end-of-life care, mental health, death, burial, cremation, funerary ceremonies and symbols, repatriation and martyrdom.

Death, Ritual, and Belief

Death, Ritual, and Belief
Author: Douglas Davies
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2002-04-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0826454836

Describing a great variety of funeral ritual from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures not only cope with corpses but also create an added value for living through the encouragement of afterlife beliefs. The explosion of interest in death in recent years reflects the key theme of this book - the rhetoric of death - the way cultures use the most potent weapon of words to bring new power to life. This new edition is one third longer than the original with new material on the death of Jesus, the most theorized death ever which offers a useful case study for students. There is also empirical material from contemporary/recent events such as the death of Diana and an expanded section on theories of grief which will make the book more attractive to death counsellors.

Death, Ritual, and Belief

Death, Ritual, and Belief
Author: Douglas J. Davies
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0304338222

Describing a variety of funeral ritual, from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures cope not only with corpses but also create an added value for living through the growth of afterlife beliefs. The key theme of the book is the rhetoric of death -- the way cultures use the most potent weapon of words to bring new power to life. Human identity and its transformation through mortuary rites is explored through the mummies of Chile and Egypt; African sacrificial deaths; Indian cremations; immigrant cemeteries in the USA; ancestor rites in Eastern religions and Mormonism; and the freezing of the dead in cryonics. Research findings are presented on cremation and afterlife beliefs, especially reincarnation, sensing the presence of the dead, and the death of pets in Britain, to show how mortuary rituals are constantly changing in response to death as a major feature of the human environment.

Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier

Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier
Author: Richard A. Etlin
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1994
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780719040610

Architectural historian Etlin defines the main principles of progressive 19th-century architectural thought: the architectural system, the picturesque, philosophical eclecticism, and the spirit of the times. These principles are explored in detail in relation to 19th- and 20th-century architecture, and also to demonstrate their importance to the work of Wright and Le Corbusier. Illustrated with drawings and photos. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author:
Publisher: Siglo del Hombre Editores
Total Pages: 140
Release:
Genre:
ISBN:

Death and Architecture

Death and Architecture
Author: James Stevens Curl
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Richly illustrated with over 350 photographs, plans and engravings, this fascinating and unusual book examines the importance of funerary architecture in the development of architectural style. It reveals many hidden wonders and beauties throughout the world.