Tap, Tap by David Martin

Tap, Tap by David Martin

This story deals with one of the most thought about subjects and talked about events in the universe. That is the fear of the unknown. No one really understands what it is like to die. Even worse; what if something went wrong and you were not really dead, but everyone thought you were? What if you were pronounced deceased by the medical community? What if you couldn't do anything about it? What if all your loved ones and friends thought you had, as they put it, 'passed'?

What if you were so paranoid of dying you created an outline of how you wanted your body managed once you had been pronounced dead? What if you took every precaution to prevent... Yes the unthinkable... Being buried alive? What if you were very much cognizant, but were unable to convey this to anyone? What if you put your thoughts into actions and prepared ahead of time with a type of death-kit?

Pat Faros was a relatively healthy widow that had just turned sixty-five and feared she would not live another year. That was how old her mother had been when she passed away. Pat planned to have a special casket made by her brother that would have the bells and whistles that one would need to survive a horrendous mistake.

What would Pat's ordeal reveal to her about her family and friends? Were they there for her? What happens when they are put to the test?

Professor David Martin is Honorary Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University; Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics; and a prolific contributor to public as well as sociological debate about religion. The author of more than 20 books, he has established creative lines of thinking both within the sociology of religion and at the interface between sociology and theology. Early books include Pacifism (Routledge 1965), The Sociology of English Religion (SCM 1967), and The Religious and the Secular (Routledge 1969), but Martin became best known for his magisterial A General Theory of Secularization (Blackwell 1978), which questioned the inevitability of secularization in modern societies. The secularization issue is complex, contingent, and infinitely variable, requiring detailed comparative analysis. Later work, notably Tongues of Fire (Blackwell 1990), elaborates the Latin American case within the secularization framework. Forbidden Revolutions (SPCK 1996) continues the commitment to comparative sociology, and Reflections on Sociology and Theology (Oxford University Press 1996) collects a series of essays on the title theme. Most recently (July 2005) Martin has up-dated the secularisation debate in his book On Secularization - towards a revised general theory (Ashgate), and published Christian Language and its Mutations (Ashgate 2002) and As a teacher, David Martin has initiated at least two generations of scholars into the discipline; organizationally he has promoted the sociology of religion both in Britain, through the British Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Study Group, and internationally as President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion. His distinction can be quantified in numerous invitations to give the most prestigious public lectures in the field and in a variety of academic appointments in both Europe and the United States.

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ISBN 13	9780312958350
ISBN 10	0312958358
Title	Tap, Tap
Author	David Martin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	1996-09-15
Number of pages	340
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