Sociology: Death & Dying

A Sunday Times Bestseller March 2022 (Ireland)Soon, the lockdown would start. People would die alone, without any proper ceremony. Charlotte's deat...

Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 New York Times Bestseller A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionat...

Developing the theory of cultural trauma in regard to the shattering potential effects of political assassinations, Eyerman examines political and ...

Developing the theory of cultural trauma in regard to the shattering potential effects of political assassinations, Eyerman examines political and ...

PROSE Award Finalist for Psychology and Applied Social Work Argues that a range of behaviors such as murder-suicide, terrorism, and mass shootings ...

This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship were turned into monumen...

Without an appropriate spiritual care model, it can be difficult to discuss existential questions about death and dying with people who are confron...

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

Playwright Naomi Westerman was an anthropology grad student studying death rituals around the world when her whole family died, turning death from ...

'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 ...