RT Article
T1 The coffin question: death and materiality in humanist funerals
JF Material religion
VO 11
IS 1
SP 26
OP 48
A1 Engelke, Matthew 1972-
LA English
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1570174164
AB In this article I explore the attitudes of humanist celebrants in England to the presence of the coffin at the funerals they conduct. For these celebrants, who are members of the British Humanist Association, the coffin is something that can disrupt the integrity of "the immanent frame." Throughout the course of the article, I relate this concern to questions of materiality and material culture, arguing, in line with a growing number of others in the human sciences, that we cannot understand secular formations without attention to its embodied and material dimensions.
K1 anthropology of death
K1 British Humanist Association
K1 Funerals
K1 Humanism
K1 Secularism
DO 10.2752/205393215X14259900061553