Death, Grief, and Mourning Research Papers (original) (raw)

Attached: Introduction, Notes on Contributors.
This collection of articles is a thoughtful examination of the history, function and place of emerging rituals. The discussion goes beyond academic assessment and acknowledgement of the absence of meaningful ritual to focus on the different ways people are responding to the call for ‘new rituals’. It recognises the extent to which sincere ritualisation is essential to the physical, psychological and spiritual health of individuals, family groups, organisations and even society as a whole.
Contributors: 13 authors, 15 transdisciplinary fields:

- Ellen Dissanayake, hon. PhD, an independent scholar focusing on 'the anthropological exploration of art and culture’. Seattle, Washington, USA
- Matthieu Smyth, PhD, Ritual Anthropologist, Professor at the University of Strasbourg.
- Robert C. Scaer, M.D., Neurologist, Psychologist, currently retired from clinical medical practice. Louisville, Colorado, USA.
- Jeltje Gordon-Lennox, M.Div, Psychotherapist and Celebrant Trainer, Ashoka Association, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Andrés Allemand Smaller, journalist and secular celebrant in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Christine Behrend, marketing and consumer behaviour researcher and a secular celebrant in Pully, Switzerland.
- Isabel Russo, Head of Ceremonies at The British Humanist Association, London, UK.
- Michael Picucci, PhD, Psychologist, licensed psychotherapist, New York City, USA.
- Joanna Wojtkowiak, PhD, Cultural psychologist, Assistant professor at the University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- Lindy Mechefske, journalist and food-writer in Kingston, Canada.
- Irene Stengs, PhD, Cultural Anthropologist, Senior Researcher Fellow at the Meertens Instituut, Co-editor of Anthropological Journal Etnofoor, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Gianpiero Vincenzo, MA, sociologist, islamist, art critic and novelist; Professor of sociology at the Fine Arts Academy of Catania in Sicily, Italy.
- Jacqueline Millner, PhD, is Associate Dean Research, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
- Ida van der Lee, ritual artist, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Publication date: early 2017