Modernity, Mortality and Re-Enchantment: The Death Taboo Revisited  

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Lee, Raymond L.M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sociology vol. 42 no. 04 (Aug. 2008), page 745–759.
Topik: death; modernity; re-enchantment
Fulltext: 745.pdf (240.79KB)

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The death taboo has been depicted as modernity’s burial of the question of human mortality. Death is prejudged as a ‘pornographic’ event that should be veiled. Critics argue that this taboo has been exaggerated and the sequestration of death reflects a crisis of meaning in modernity. However, sources of re-enchantment in modernity have continually undermined the death taboo by keeping alive the meaning of transcendence. New Age redefinition of death as spiritual transition and representation of near-death experiences as affirmation of the afterlife have revived the quest for transcendence over the silence perpetrated by the taboo. As part of the quest for transcendence, re-enchantment emasculates death as a foe in order to redefine it as a vehicle of emancipation.

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