Meaningful Funerals
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The postmodern context and the recognition of a need for ritual
3. Grieving in a postmodern era
4. Being and doing in the pastoral and spiritual care of the bereaved
5. Ritualising death - formal and informal moments
6. Co-construction - meeting spiritual needs and facilitating grief
7. Co-construction - opportunities for the church
8. Paradigm shifts
Appendix: Ritual resources - sacred and secular

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Addresses how funerals may be created which are not only relevant for the bereaved, but which also have theological integrity

About the Author

Ewan Kelly initially studied medicine and worked as a junior doctor before completing a theology degree and becoming ordained as a Church of Scotland minister. He currently works as Programme Director for Healthcare Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care, NHS Education for Scotland and as a part-time senior Lecturer in Pastoral Theology at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

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Mention -Book News, November 2008

Review in Church Times, February 2009

"...the possibility should be offered and planned for, if we take the research and insights of this book as seriously as it deserves." Theology, November 2009

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