How Long to Read Death, Ritual, and Belief

How Long Does it Take to Read Death, Ritual, and Belief?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Death, Ritual, and Belief by Douglas J. Davies

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Describing a variety of funeral ritual, from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures cope not only with corpses but also create an added value for living through the growth of afterlife beliefs. The key theme of the book is the rhetoric of death -- the way cultures use the most potent weapon of words to bring new power to life. Human identity and its transformation through mortuary rites is explored through the mummies of Chile and Egypt; African sacrificial deaths; Indian cremations; immigrant cemeteries in the USA; ancestor rites in Eastern religions and Mormonism; and the freezing of the dead in cryonics. Research findings are presented on cremation and afterlife beliefs, especially reincarnation, sensing the presence of the dead, and the death of pets in Britain, to show how mortuary rituals are constantly changing in response to death as a major feature of the human environment.

How long is Death, Ritual, and Belief?

Death, Ritual, and Belief by Douglas J. Davies is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Death, Ritual, and Belief Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Death, Ritual, and Belief aloud.

What Reading Level is Death, Ritual, and Belief?

Death, Ritual, and Belief is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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