Death, nature and uncertain spaces: A commentary from paganism

For pagans, mortality is often linked to carnivalesque celebration taking place in ambivalent spaces, termed heterotopia, where symbols of life and death meet. In these spaces death is sublimated into a nurturing, rather than life-denying force, strengthening pagan identity and solidarity. Effective...

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Published inOmega: Journal of Death and Dying Vol. 44; no. 2; p. 127
Main Author Green, Dave
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Sage Publications Ltd 20.11.2001
Subjects
Death & dying
Paganism & animism
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Summary:For pagans, mortality is often linked to carnivalesque celebration taking place in ambivalent spaces, termed heterotopia, where symbols of life and death meet. In these spaces death is sublimated into a nurturing, rather than life-denying force, strengthening pagan identity and solidarity. Effectively, death becomes interiorized by pagans.
ISSN:0030-2228
1541-3764