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

Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing patterns of social relationships, me...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Boret, Sébastien Penmellen (Editor), Long, Susan Orpett (Editor), Kan, Sergei (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Religion and sociology.
Ethnology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319523651
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-52365-1
Physical DescriptionXI, 295 p. 15 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Fear and Prayers: Negotiating with the Dead in Apiao, Chiloé (Chile)
  • 3. Quelling the "Unquiet Dead": Popular Devotions in the Borderlands of the USSR
  • 4. Life After Death/Life Before Death and Their Linkages: The United States, Japan, China
  • 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
  • 8. Agency and the Personalization of the Grave in Japan
  • 9. Remembering the Dead: Agency, Authority, and Mortuary Practices in Interreligious Families in the United States.

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