Sociology: Death & Dying

'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and bo...

A comprehensive survey of how religions understand death, dying, and the afterlife, drawing on examples from Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, an...

A comprehensive survey of how religions understand death, dying, and the afterlife, drawing on examples from Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, an...

YOU ONLY DIE ONCE is a spirited and funny but also profound and highly practical manual for anyone who yearns to show up more fully and wholehearte...

Desde reconocer las señ ales de alarma, entender las motivaciones, distinguir los posibles trastornos que envuelven el suicidio, hasta dar herramie...

Taking a broad interpretation of supernatural to include anything beyond nature, Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural examines...

Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake, clean headstones, a...

Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake, clean headstones, a...

At the beginning of the 19th century, New England physicians teaching anatomy in their medical schools expected students to have hands-on experienc...

Reflecting a concern with the high rates of gendered and sexual violence in South Africa, the authors of this innovative book explore the experienc...

His wife died before their second son turned one. How can he keep her memory alive when theres so much he wants to forget?There was a time before h...

A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary lifeDeath in the United States is undergoing a quiet re...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In rural China funerals are conducted locally, on village ...