Continuing Bonds in the Resolution of Grief in Japan and North America

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ID3757544
AutoresDennis Kla (0000-0002-0031-5753, Webster University, autor correspondente), Dennis Klass (Webster University)
Ano2001
Volume44
Fascículo5
Páginas742-763
Data de publicação2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027640121956476
OpenAlexW2034186977
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas37
Referências citadas35

The article is a cross-cultural study of continuing bonds to the dead as an aspect of bereavement in Japan and North America. Japanese ancestor rituals, rooted in Buddhism, are well-developed cultural forms for managing continuing bonds. North American material is from a study of continuing bonds among bereaved parents in a self-help group. Cultural differences create very different ways of experiencing and managing the thoughts and emotions modern psychology calls grief. In both Japan and North America, the transformation of the relationship from living to a continuing bond is accomplished by embedding the attachment to the deceased in a network of social bonds. In both, bonds to the dead connect survivors to larger attachments, to religion, and to nation. The level of abstraction ranges from how relating to the dead functions in individual lives to how grief and continuing bonds are shaped by the culture's economic and political power arrangements

Ancestor · Archaeology · Bond · Buddhism · Business · Grief · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Psychiatry · Sociology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology