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Thesis (Doktor-Ingenieur)--Tech. Hochschule Stuttgart. / Lebenslauf. "Quellenverzeichnis": p. vii.

Thesis (Doktor-Ingenieur)--Tech. Hochschule Stuttgart. / Lebenslauf. "Quellenverzeichnis": p. vii.

Diss.--Aachen. / Lebenslauf. Bibliography: p. 124-133.

<p> Drawing on theoretical frameworks from Religious Studies, Anthropology and Sociology, this dissertation poses the question: How is religious meaning constructed in the face of death in contemporary North America, given that commercial establishments, non-denominational funeral chapels, have become the primary context for the performance of death rituals dealing with death, the dead and the bereaved? </p> <p> The dissertation is based on an extended period of ethnographic research at the Marlatt Funeral Home in Dundas, Ontario, a corporately owned non-denominational funeral home which serves a very diverse, but predominantly urban religious population. I concentrate on the funeral professionals as well as clergy and the bereaved in their contribution to the cultural construction and social organization of death in contemporary North America. </p> <p> While there is an extensive body of social science literature on death and funerary practices in non-Western contexts, there is very little systematic academic research on death and funeral practices in contemporary North America, in particular, in Canadian settings. My dissertation furthers the discussion started in studies by Emke (2001) and Small ( 1997) which focus on funeral practices in Newfoundland as well as studies by Bradbury (1999), Davies (2002), Howarth (1996) and Walter (1990, 1994, 1996, 1998) elsewhere in the Anglophone West by focusing on funeral practises in an urban Canadian setting This dissertation demonstrates that funeral directors perform a complicated role as mediators and ritual specialists balancing multiple domains of spirituality, emotion, personal taste, institutionalized religion, ethnicity and commerce. Furthermore, I argue that funeral directors mediate between the living and the dead, between life and death, and between this world and the afterlife, as it is conceived of by their clients. </p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

The intention of this thesis project will be primarily focused on issues of the cemetery that involve its utilization as a vehicle to cultivate an awareness of heritage and its role in establishing a framework on which to promote the sense of communal identity in an authentic manner. For as many divergent societies that co-exist on earth there are equally as many diverse ritualistic patterns involving death and dying particular to each society. Although the study of these ritualistic patterns is an intriguing one, with regard to utilization of the cemetery as a vehicle to strengthen the identity of place, I believe, it is essential to accommodate and enrich already accepted notions of death and dying particular to Vancouver and Canada. As a consequence of the country's age, it seems that there is always the pressure to import character and values from other places. To begin to define an identity and therefore cultivate community there has to be acknowledgment and acceptance of heritage as an initial point of growth. For these reasons, rather than replace an already existing set of rituals with foreign ideologies surrounding death and dying, it is crucial that existing rituals not be discarded. The proposed site for this project is the Grandview Cut rail corridor that extends between the False Creek Flats and Grandview Woodlands in East Vancouver. Specifically, the site is situated between Clark Drive on the west and Slocan Drive on the east.

Inaug.-diss.--Munich. / Lebenslauf. "Vorliegende Arbeit ist hervorgegangen aus einem Studium der hannoverschen Kapellgeschichte."--Vorwort. "Verzeichnis der benutzten Literatur": p. [7]-10. "Bibliographie": p. [207]-215.

The intention of this thesis project will be primarily focused on issues of the cemetery that involve its utilization as a vehicle to cultivate an awareness of heritage and its role in establishing a framework on which to promote the sense of communal identity in an authentic manner. For as many divergent societies that co-exist on earth there are equally as many diverse ritualistic patterns involving death and dying particular to each society. Although the study of these ritualistic patterns is an intriguing one, with regard to utilization of the cemetery as a vehicle to strengthen the identity of place, I believe, it is essential to accommodate and enrich already accepted notions of death and dying particular to Vancouver and Canada. As a consequence of the country's age, it seems that there is always the pressure to import character and values from other places. To begin to define an identity and therefore cultivate community there has to be acknowledgment and acceptance of heritage as an initial point of growth. For these reasons, rather than replace an already existing set of rituals with foreign ideologies surrounding death and dying, it is crucial that existing rituals not be discarded. The proposed site for this project is the Grandview Cut rail corridor that extends between the False Creek Flats and Grandview Woodlands in East Vancouver. Specifically, the site is situated between Clark Drive on the west and Slocan Drive on the east. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate

TITLE: Ruined sacred buildings of royal town Znojmo and the nearest surroundings AUTHOR: Bc. Jan Kočí DEPARTMENT: The History and History Didactics Department SUPERVISOR: Mgr. Dušan Foltýn ABSTRACT: The content of my thesis is a summary of all so far discovered sacral buildings in the territory of the royal town Znojmo, that have not been preserved, but that were destroyed or rebuilt. Gradually there are described defunct the Great Moravian buildings, the medieval and the modern buildings. A special part is the chapter of defunct sacral buildings of the cemetery. Defunct sacral buildings in Znojmo were studied from the perspective of historical, architectural and from the viewpoint of current status and utilization. Personal contribution to this work is a restoration viewpoint and pointing out options to improve the situation. To study were used the primary sources from the archival collections in Znojmo, Czech and German regional literature, files of contemporary periodicals, postcard of the secondary modern literature. The possibility of consultations with local historians and a personal visitation of all described sites for creating custom preview and photos were used as well. This thesis is not the first register of defunct sacral buildings in Znojmo, however is the first complete register, which is...

Master of Architecture