Death rituals, religious beliefs, and grief of Turkish women

References

• Aktaş, G. (2011). Familial and cultural descriptions about the daughters in families of different socio-economic and socio-cultural backgrounds (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Hacettepe University, Turkey.
   Google Scholar
• Artun, E. (2006, April). Çukurova konar-göçer Türkmenlerinin halk kültüründe eski Türk inançlarının izleri [The tracks of ancient Turkish beliefs on the unsettled Cukurova Turkmens’ culture]. Paper presented at the meeting of II. Kayseri ve Yöresi Kültür, Sanat ve Edebiyat Bilgi Şöleni, Kayseri, Türkiye.
   Google Scholar
• Başçetinçelik, A. (2009). Adana halk kültüründe doğum - evlenme – ölüm [Birth – marriage – death in Adana culture]. Adana: Altın Koza Yayınları.
   Google Scholar
• Bogdan, R. C., & Biklen, S. K. (2007). Qualitative research for education: An introduction to theories and methods. New York, NY: Pearson Education, Inc.
   Google Scholar
• Breen, L. J., & O’Connor, M. (2010). Acts of resistance: Breaking the silence of grief following traffic crash fatalities. Death Studies, 34, 30–53. doi:10.1080/07481180903372384
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Breen, L. J., & O’Connor, M. (2011). Family and social networks after bereavement: Experiences of support, change, and isolation. Journal of Family Therapy, 33, 98–120. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6427.2010.00495.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Castle, J., & Phillips, W. L. (2003). Grief rituals: Aspects that facilitate adjustment to bereavement. Journal of Loss and Trauma: International Perspectives on Stress & Coping, 8(1), 41–71. doi:10.1080/15325020305876
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Catlin, G. (1993). The role of culture in grief. Journal of Social Psychology, 133(2), 173–184. doi:10.1080/00224545.1993.9712135
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cimete, G., & Kuğuoglu, S. (2006). Grief responses of Turkish families after the death of their children from cancer. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 11, 31–51. doi:10.1080/15325020500194455
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cohen, M. (2003). Death ritual: Anthropological perspectives. In P. A. Pecorino (Ed.), Perspectives of death and dying (5th ed.). Online Textbook, Department of Social Sciences, Queensborough Community College, City University, NY. Retrieved from http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/SocialSciences/ppecorino/DeathandDying_TEXT/Cohen.htm (Original work published 1971).
   Google Scholar
• Corr, C. A., & Corr, D. M. (2013). Culture, socialization, and dying. In D. Meagher & D. Balk (Eds.), Handbook of thanatology: The essential body of knowledge for the study of death, dying, and bereavement (pp. 3–8). New York, NY: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Creswell, J. W. (2013). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five designs. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Currier, J. M., Holland, J. M., & Neimeyer, R. A. (2006). Sense-making, grief, and the experience of violent loss: Toward a mediational model. Death Studies, 30(5), 403–428. doi:10.1080/07481180600614351
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dass-Brailsford, P. (2007). A practical approach to trauma: Empowering interventions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Ellis, J. B., & Garske, G. G. (2007). Anishinabek spirituality: Traversing grief and loss. The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations, 7(1), 229–236.
   Google Scholar
• Ersoy, R. (2002). Death and dead body rites and rituals in Turkish culture. Milli Folklor, 54, 86–101.
   Google Scholar
• Field, N. P., & Filanosky, C. (2009). Continuing bonds, risk factors for complicated grief, and adjustment to bereavement. Death Studies, 34(1), 1–29. doi:10.1080/07481180903372269
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gilbert, K. R. (1996). “We’ve had the same loss, why don’t we have the same grief?” Loss and differential grief in families. Death Studies, 20, 269–283. doi:10.1080/07481189608252781
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gillies, J., & Neimeyer, R. A. (2006). Loss, grief, and the search for significance: Toward a model of meaning reconstruction in bereavement. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 19, 31–65. doi:10.1080/10720530500311182
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gillies, J., Neimeyer, R. A., & Milman, E. (2014). The meaning of loss codebook: Construction of a system for analyzing meanings made in bereavement. Death Studies, 38(4), 207–216, doi:10.1080/07481187.2013.829367
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hawkins, P. G. (2002). Helping children cope with death. In J. Sandoval (Ed.), Handbook of crisis counseling, intervention, and prevention in the schools (pp. 161–179). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
   Google Scholar
• Hensley, P. L. (2006). A review of bereavement-related depression and complicated grief. Psychiatric Annals, 36(9), 619–626.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Holloway, M., Adamson, S., Argyrou, V., Draper, P., & Mariau, D. (2013). “Funerals aren’t nice but it couldn’t have been nicer”. The makings of a good funeral. Mortality, 18(1), 30–53. doi:10.1080/13576275.2012.755505
   Google Scholar
• Hunter, K. (2007). “Sleep on dear Ernie, your battles are o’er”: A glimpse of a mourning community, Invercargill, New Zealand, 1914-1925. War in History, 14(1), 36–62. doi:10.1177/0968344507071040
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Iltar, G. (2003). Eski Türklerde mezar kültü ve günümüze yansımaları [Grave cults of ancient Turks and their reflections today]. Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi, 27, 1–8.
   Google Scholar
• Imber-Black, E., & Roberts, J. (1998). Rituals for our times: Celebrating, healing, and changing our lives and our relationships. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
   Google Scholar
• Irion, P. E. (1990). Changing patterns of ritual response to death. Omega, 22(3), 159–172. doi:10.2190/1MY9-7P2B-GWF2-A53X
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kaçar, Ö. (2007). Social gender and the position of woman: Understanding the recent changes in Turkey (Unpublished master’s thesis). Afyon Kocatepe University, Turkey.
   Google Scholar
• Kağıtçıbaşı, Ç. (1986). Status of women in Turkey: Cross-cultural perspectives. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 18(4), 485–499. doi:10.1017/S0020743800030804
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Klass, D. (1996). Grief in an eastern culture: Japanese ancestor worship. In D. Klass, P. R. Silverman, & S. L. Nickman (Eds.), Continuing bonds: New understandings of grief (pp. 59–70). New York, NY: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Klass, D. (2013). Religion and spirituality in loss, grief, and mourning. In D. Meagher & D. Balk (Eds.), Handbook of thanatology: The essential body of knowledge for the study of death, dying, and bereavement (pp. 127–134). New York, NY: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Klass, D., Silverman, P. R., & Nickman, S. L. (1996). Continuing bonds: New understandings of grief. New York, NY: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Köse, N. (1994). Türk halk hikayeleri ve yas [Turkish folk stories and bereavement]. Milli Folklor, 3(22), 40–45.
   Google Scholar
• Lalande, K. M., & Bonanno, G. A. (2006). Culture and continuing bonds: A prospective comparison of bereavement in the United States and the People’s Republic of China. Death Studies, 30, 303–324. doi:10.1080/07481180500544708
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Laurie, A. & Neimeyer, R. A. (2008). African Americans in bereavement: Grief as a function of ethnicity. Omega, 57(2), 173–193. doi:10.2190/OM.57.2.d
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lewis, L., & Hoy, W. G. (2011). Bereavement ritual and the creation of legacy. In R. A. Neimeyer, D. L. Harris, H. R. Winokuer, & Gordon F. Thornton (Eds.), Grief and bereavement in contemporary society: Bridging research and practice (pp. 315–323). New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Morgan, J. D. (Ed.) (2005). Death and bereavement around the world: Death and bereavement in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. New York, NY: Baywood.
   Google Scholar
• Morgan, J. D., & Laugani, P. (Eds.) (2002). Death and bereavement around the world: Major religious traditions. New York, NY: Baywood.
   Google Scholar
• Morgan, J. D., & Laugani, P. (Eds.) (2003). Death and bereavement around the world: Death and bereavement in the Americas. New York, NY: Baywood.
   Google Scholar
• Morgan, J. D., & Laugani, P. (Eds.) (2005). Death and bereavement in Europe. New York, NY: Baywood.
   Google Scholar
• Nagel, J. K. (1988). Unresolved grief and mourning in Navajo women. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 2(2), 32–40. doi:10.5820/aian.0202.1988.32
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Neimeyer, G. J., & Neimeyer, R. A (1994). Constructivist methods of marital and family therapy: A practical precis. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 16(1), 85–104.
   Google Scholar
• Neimeyer, R. A. (1999). Narrative strategies in grief therapy. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 12, 65–85. doi:10.1080/107205399266226
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Neimeyer, R. A. (2001). The language of loss: Grief therapy as a process of meaning reconstruction. In R. A. Neimeyer (Ed.), Meaning reconstruction and the experience of loss (pp. 261–292). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
   Google Scholar
• Neimeyer, R. A., Burke, L. A., Mackay, M. M., & van Dyke Stringer, J. G. (2008) Grief therapy and the reconstruction of meaning: From principles to practice. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 40(2), 73–83. doi:10.1007/s10879-009-9135-3
   Google Scholar
• Neimeyer, R. A., Klass, D., & Dennis, M. R. (2014a). Mourning, meaning, and memory: Individual, communal, and cultural narration of grief. In A. Batthyany & P. Russo-Netzer (Eds.), Meaning in positive and existential psychology (pp. 325–346). New York, NY: Springer.
   Google Scholar
• Neimeyer, R. A., Klass, D., & Dennis, M. R. (2014b). A social constructionist account of grief: Loss and the narration of meaning. Death Studies, 38, 485–498. doi:10.1080/07481187.2014.913454
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Neimeyer, R. A., & Sands, D. C. (2011). Meaning reconstruction in bereavement: From principles to practice. In R. A. Neimeyer, D. L. Harris, H. R. Winokuer, & Gordon F. Thornton (Eds.), Grief and bereavement in contemporary society: Bridging research and practice (pp. 9–22). New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Nordanger, D. (2007). Discourses of loss and bereavement in Tigray, Ethiopia. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 31, 173–194. doi:10.1007/s11013-007-9050-6
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Oltjenbruns, K. A. (1998). Ethnicity and the grief response: Mexican American versus Anglo American college students. Death Studies, 22, 141–155. doi:10.1080/074811898201641
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Paletti, R. (2008). Recovery in context: Bereavement, culture, and the transformation of the therapeutic self. Death Studies, 32, 17–26. doi:10.1080/07481180701741236
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Patton, M. Q. (2015). Qualitative research and evaluation methods. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Rando, T. A. (1985). Creating therapeutic rituals in the psychotherapy of the bereaved. Psychotherapy, 22(2), 236–240. doi:10.1037/h0085500
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Romanoff, B. D., & Terenzio, M. (1998). Rituals and the grieving process. Death Studies, 22, 697–711. doi:10.1080/074811898201227
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rosenblatt, P. C. (2008). Recovery following bereavement: Metaphor, phenomenology, and culture. Death Studies, 32, 6–16. doi:10.1080/07481180701741228
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rosenblatt, P. C. (2013). Culture, socialization, and loss, grief, and mourning. In D. Meagher & D. Balk (Eds.), Handbook of thanatology: The essential body of knowledge for the study of death, dying, and bereavement (pp. 121–126). New York, NY: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Shimabukuro, K. P., Daniels, J., & D’Andrea, M. (1999). Addressing spiritual issues from a cultural perspective: The case of the grieving Filipino boy. Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development, 27(4), 221–239. doi:10.1002/j.2161-1912.1999.tb00337.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stroebe, M., Gergen, M., Gergen, K., & Stroebe, W. (1996). Broken hearts or broken bonds? In D. Klass, P. R. Silverman, & S. L. Nickman (Eds.), Continuing bonds: New understandings of grief (pp. 31–44). New York, NY: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Stroebe, M. S., Hansson, R. O., Stroebe, W., & Schut, H. (2001). Introduction: Concepts and issues in contemporary research on bereavement. In M. S. Stroebe, R. O. Hansson, W. Stroebe, & H. Schut, Handbook of bereavement research: Consequences, coping, and care (pp. 3–22). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
   Google Scholar
• Stroebe, M., & Schut, H. (1998). Culture and grief. Bereavement Care, 17(1), 7–11. doi:10.1080/02682629808657425
   Google Scholar
• Stroebe, M., & Schut, H. (1999). The dual process model of coping with bereavement: Rationale and description. Death Studies, 23, 197–224. doi:10.1080/074811899201046
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stroebe, W., & Schut, H. (2001). Risk factors in bereavement outcome: A methodological and empirical review. In M. S. Stroebe, R. O. Hansson, W. Stroebe, & H. Schut, Handbook of bereavement research: Consequences, coping, and care (pp. 3–22). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
   Google Scholar
• Tezcan, M. (2005). Sosyolojik kuramlarda eğitim [Education in sociological theories]. Ankara: Anı Yayıncılık.
   Google Scholar
• Tilbury, F. (2007). “I feel I am a bird without wings”: Discourses of sadness and loss among East Africans in Western Australia. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 14, 433–458. doi:10.1080/10702890701578464
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ünal, F. (2008). Kazak Türklerinde defin merasimi ve aş verme geleneği [Burial and food rituals of Kazakh Turks]. Bilig, 45, 103–130.
   Google Scholar
• Volkan, V. D., & Zintl, E. (2000). Life after loss II. İzmir: Halime Odağ Psikanaliz ve Psikoterapi Vakfı Eğitim Notları.
   Google Scholar
• Wiger, D. E., & Harowski, K. J. (2003). Essentials of crisis counseling and intervention. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
   Google Scholar
• Yıldırım, S. (2003). Parental grief reactions after an infant death (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Middle East Technical University, Turkey.
   Google Scholar
• Yıldız, M. C. (2004). Bir ölüm ritüeli olarak Mevlit ve din görevlileri [Mevlid as a death ritual and religious commissaries]. Electronic Journal of Social Sciences, 3(7), 1–22.
   Google Scholar
• Yılmaz, M. A. (2005). Aladağ halk kültürü araştırması [Research of Aladağ culture] (Unpublished master thesis). Cukurova University, Turkey.
   Google Scholar