Citation

Hussein JW. Death Stud. 2018; 42(7): 432-445.

Affiliation

a College of Social Sciences and Humanities , Haramaya University , Dire Dawa , Ethiopia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/07481187.2017.1354945

PMID

28723238

Abstract

The paper is an inquiry into the poetics of mourning and faith-based intervention in maladaptive grieving processes in Ethiopia. The paper discusses the ways loss is signified and analyses the meanings of ethno-cultural and psychospiritual practices employed to deal with maladaptive grief processes and their psychological and emotional after-effects. Hermeneutics provided the methodological framework and informed the analysis. The thesis of the paper is that the poetics of mourning and faith-based social interventions are interactionally based meaning making processes. The paper indicates the limitations of the study and their implications for further inquiry.

Language: en

Keywords

bereavement; faith-based intervention; poetics of mourning