A New Art of Dying as a Cultural Challenge
In North Atlantic culture dying is mostly seen as a personal event. The societal dimension of dying and the impact of the cultural horizon are often overlooked. In this contribution a revised version of a medieval Ars moriendi model is used as a lens to perceive the one-sidedness of North Atlantic c...
| Published in: | Studies in Christian Ethics |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications
2016
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0953946816642974 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0953946816642974 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0953946816642974 |
| Summary: | In North Atlantic culture dying is mostly seen as a personal event. The societal dimension of dying and the impact of the cultural horizon are often overlooked. In this contribution a revised version of a medieval Ars moriendi model is used as a lens to perceive the one-sidedness of North Atlantic culture. |
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