Death in the Early Twenty-First Century: Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites

Book Overview

1. Introduction
Part I: Culture, Religion and the Uses of Tradition

2. Fear and Prayers: Negotiating with the Dead in Apiao, Chilo? (Chile)
3. Quelling the "Unquiet Dead" Popular Devotions in the Borderlands of the USSR
5. Life After Death/Life Before Death and Their Linkages: The United States, Japan, China
Part II: Personhood, Memory and Technology
5. Reincarnation, Christianity, and Controversial Coffins in Northwestern Benin
6. For the Solace of the Young and the Authority of the Old: Death Photography in Acholi, Northern Uganda
7. Mediating Mortality: Transtemporal Illness Blogs and Digital Care Work
Part III: Individual, Choice, and Identity
8. Agency and the Personalization of the Grave in Japan9. Remembering the Dead: Agency, Authority, and Mortuary Practices in Interreligious Families in the United States

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319848860
• ISBN13: 9783319848860
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"