The coffin question: death and materiality in humanist funerals

In this article I explore the attitudes of humanist celebrants in England to the presence of the coffin at the funerals they conduct. For these celebrants, who are members of the British Humanist Association, the coffin is something that can disrupt the integrity of "the immanent frame." T...

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Auteur principal: Engelke, Matthew 1972- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: [2015]
Dans: Material religion
Année: 2015, Volume: 11, Numéro: 1, Pages: 26-48
Sujets non-standardisés:B Funerals
B British Humanist Association
B anthropology of death
B Humanism
B Secularism
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Maison d'édition)
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Résumé:In this article I explore the attitudes of humanist celebrants in England to the presence of the coffin at the funerals they conduct. For these celebrants, who are members of the British Humanist Association, the coffin is something that can disrupt the integrity of "the immanent frame." Throughout the course of the article, I relate this concern to questions of materiality and material culture, arguing, in line with a growing number of others in the human sciences, that we cannot understand secular formations without attention to its embodied and material dimensions.
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ISSN:1751-8342
Contient:Enthalten in: Material religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2752/205393215X14259900061553