Sentences with phrase «mourning rituals»

In addition, since the media attention given to the Kennedy assassination, there has been a societal imprimatur for children to participate in funeral services and mourning rituals.

When the novel begins, Christopher, the narrator's husband, has been in Greece for a month to conduct research for a book, a general - interest «study of mourning rituals around the world» — an odd topic, the narrator thinks, for a «careless flirt» in his early 40s who has never suffered loss.

Mourning rituals and time varies according to sect, region, cast and family tradition, but many Hindus limit it to 31 days, so their grief doesn't damage the soul in its new incarnation.

Their participation in the mourning rituals makes the death seem less abstract and scary and helps them achieve a sense of closure with the deceased.»

Nothing that traumatic goes down in «This Is Where I Leave You,» a kitchen - sink dramedy about a suburban New York family reuniting for the Jewish mourning ritual of shiva, directed by Levy from a script and book by the novelist Jonathan Tropper.

This leads on to what Humeau calls a «biological showroom» of elephants, engaged in an elaborate mourning ritual.

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If the Jesus story ended on Friday, then the disciples can simply be «the eleven,» and after the appropriate rituals and a season of mourning, they can go back to life as it was.

Churches offer pastoral sympathy and support to the bereaved, but there seem now in the West to be no agreed rituals of mourning, as for example in most Orthodox Jewish families.

Elephants are capable of mourning and simple burial rituals and understanding death and likely, according to recent research, have complex emotions.

According to ancient texts, the body was supposed to be kept under natron for 35 days, and then kept around, exposed, for another 35 — perhaps for a period of mourning or other religious rituals.

The Fore population in Papua New Guinea ate the brains of their tribe members as an act of mourning, a ritual that allowed a misshapen protein to spread through the population.

Of course, they're late to my party; no, on second thought, late to my shivah, the Jewish ritual mourning period, typically seven days but in Lakewood an eternity.

Mourning the passing of a loved one is a natural and necessary process that has different rules, guidelines and rituals depending on ones beliefs, offering structure for the grieving.

End Notes is a collection of 10 interlinked stories about loss, mourning and commemoration.An English girl uses a Nigerian ritual to mourn her beloved grandmother; journalists in pursuit of a story carry out «the death knock»; siblings discover hidden aspects of their father's life when they attend his two very different funerals; a Spanish woman encounters unexpected tenderness and grace in a London hospice; a collector goes in search of ghost stories at a haunted Finnish manor; 1988, 2016, 2017 - what was wrong with those years?

Yet, our culture does not provide us with the rituals to help us mourn the loss of a companion animal, as it does with the loss of a human.

«Our very humanity resides within the devotion or contempt that we assign to our practices, processes, and rituals of mourning,» Salcedo has written.

Yama Rahimi's (Afghanistan) Creation Song (2014) juxtaposes footage of a cemetery with images of a stonemason chiselling headstones and explores rituals of mourning, burial and renewal.

Programs in the drill hall include the North American stage premiere of Louis Andriessen's De Materie, directed by composer Heiner Goebbels and featuring the International Contemporary Ensemble in a visually dramatic production incorporating music, dance, and spoken word; a new commission by visual artist and musician Martin Creed that marks his largest installation in the U.S. to date and reimagines the Armory's drill hall and period rooms in a surprising meditation on existence; a major new work by artist Taryn Simon that explores rituals of grief and mourning; and Circle Map, a program of ambitious spatial works by composer Kaija Saariaho that features the New York Philharmonic.

It is this loss of their traditional cultures that his listless figures seem to mourn, their bright fabrics hanging limply from their bodies, their hands clutching ritual objects whose functions seem less and less apparent.

Each of the book's ten chapters introduces a theme: ideas of the Creation, the figure of Jesus, the sublime, wonder, diaspora and exile, religious and political conflict, ritual practice, mourning and monumentalizing, and spiritual «dwelling» in the body and in space, followed by a selection of works that illustrates that theme.

Displayed in stark white - on - white galleries, the sealed vitrines become hermetic environments for contemplation or even mourning as these silenced objects of ritual, play, and aesthetic devotion seem to have reached some form of transcendent afterlife.

The latter is informed by the traditions of death and mourning such as the Hungry Ghost Festival and the history of graveyards and burial rituals in Hong Kong.