The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife
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This Handbook traces the history of the changing notion of what it means to die and examines the many constructions of afterlife in literature, text, ritual, and material culture throughout time. The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject. Comprising twenty-nine chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into three parts and covers the following important themes:
The study of dying, death, and grief
Disposal of the dead: past, present, and…mehr

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This Handbook traces the history of the changing notion of what it means to die and examines the many constructions of afterlife in literature, text, ritual, and material culture throughout time. The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject. Comprising twenty-nine chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into three parts and covers the following important themes:

The study of dying, death, and grief

Disposal of the dead: past, present, and future

Representations of death: narratives and rhetoric

Youth meets death: a juxtaposition

Questionable deaths and afterlives: suicide, ghosts, and avatars

Material corpses and imagined afterlives around the world

Within these sections, central issues, debates, and problems are examined, including: the world of death and dying from various cultural viewpoints and timeframes, cultural and social constructions of the definition of death, disposal practices, and views of the afterlife.

The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology.
Autorenporträt
Candi K. Cann is an Associate Professor of Religion in the Honors College at Baylor University, USA.
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"A veritable feast of insights on a vast range of intriguing topics related to death and dying, this Handbook takes up issues of the afterlife, grief, corpses, ghosts, revenant pets, and much more, from diverse cultural perspectives and time periods."

-Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego, USA

"The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife is largely a work by authors with expertise in religious studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, medicine, architecture, and death studies (thanatology). It is therefore interdisciplinary (or multi-disciplinary) in nature.
[...]While the contributors range from seasoned experts in their fields to graduate students working on their doctoral dissertations, all the chapters are of good quality and written so that they may benefit academics while being accessible to upper-level undergraduates."

-Charles Taliaferro, Saint Olaf College, Religious Studies Review