The Meaning of Mourning
24 April 16:00 to 17:00
Pusey House Chapel, St. Giles, Oxford
Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode, University of Warsaw

The Meaning of Mourning
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Wednesday, 24 April, 4:00pm – IRC-HPP-Pusey Seminar – “The Meaning of Mourning” – Dr Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode, University of Warsaw

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On 24 April Dr Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode will deliver a talk entitled “The Meaning of Mourning” for a special instalment of the HPP/IRC seminar in collaboration with Pusey House’s Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture.

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This event is organised by the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion in collaboration with the Humane Philosophy Project and the Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture at Pusey House, with sponsorship from the John Templeton Foundation and the University of Warsaw.

Over the past hundred years, traditional mourning practices have fallen out of favour in the West. Wearing black for extended periods, keeping the anniversary, or remembering the dead at family celebrations all helped mourners ‘carry the weight’ of their grief by making a place for the dead in individual and community life. This is now being displaced by one that focuses on liberating the bereaved from the burden of bonds to the deceased. This lecture argues that there is a rarely acknowledged problem with this development, which can have severely detrimental effects on both communities and individual lives.