The act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary enormously and shed a fascinating light on the cultures of which they are a part.

Presents an overview of developmental theory and research, with a focus on what practitioners need to know. This title explains how children's trajectories are shaped by transactions among early relationships, brain development, and the social environment.

This title explores key anthropological and theological themes, and examines the intricacies of their interplay though history and in the present. Douglas Davies reveals how religious rituals help people to become secure in their sense of identity.

This title explores key anthropological and theological themes, and examines the intricacies of their interplay though history and in the present. Douglas Davies reveals how religious rituals help people to become secure in their sense of identity.

Describing a great variety of funeral rituals 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 growth of afterlife beliefs.

Seeks to establish several schemes of death theology related, for example, to early Christianity's Jewish cultural milieu, to belief in Christ's resurrection and to Christology, to issues of millennial belief and to an emergent liturgical practice. This book also takes up several contemporary models of the theology of death.