Ellen Elizabeth Faye Badone

Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies

Over the past three decades, my research has centred on experiences of social, emotional and bodily crisis as well as healing. My initial fieldwork, in 1983-84, in Brittany, France, focused on interpretations of death and dying. I was particularly interested in changes in Breton responses to death that had accompanied social change in this region since 1945. My research on death led me in two …