RELIGST 2M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Headhunting, Individualism, John Bowlby

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2M03
• Professor: adel

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Grief: personal reaction to the loss of any object to which an individual is attached. The nature of attachment/the relationship to the lost object. Depression is not grief/grief is not a physical illness. Bereavement: an objective state of loss/the fact of loss: Grief is the subjective response to that state of loss. Outward expression of mourning->cultural issue->agreed upon signs and rituals. Dress code?/expression of sorrow by relatives and friends/social activities. Mourning rituals assist in the resolution of grief/facilitate separation. Types of mourning rituals->imminent death, between death and funeral, at the funeral, post funeral. In the western culture: decline of private display of mourning/rise of mass public mourning. Grie(cid:448)i(cid:374)g deeply for so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e (cid:449)e did(cid:374) t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) perso(cid:374)ally. Old public mourning: public display of grief following the death of a person occupying a position of power. New public mourning: following the death of celebrities and disasters in which the mourner has invested part of his or her identity.