Death and religion in a changing world

Acknowledgments Introduction, Kathleen Garces-Foley I. Religious Approaches to Death 1. The Politics of Death and Burial in Native California, Dennis F. Kelley 2. Contemporary Hindu Approaches to Death: Living With the Dead, Mark Elmore 3. Judaism and Death: Finding Meaning in Ritual, Rebecca Golbert 4. Buddhisms and Death, Robert E. Goss and Dennis Klass 5. Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox Approaches to Death, Lizette Larson-Miller 6. Protestant Approaches to Death: Overcoming Death's Sting, Glenn Lucke and Richard B. Gilbert, with Ronald K. Barrett 7. Muslim Ways of Death: Between the Prescribed and the Performed, Juan Eduardo Campo 8. Sikhism and Death, Kristina Myrvold II. Death in Contemporary Societies 9. Contemporary American Funerals: Personalizing Tradition, Kathleen Garces-Foley and Justin S. Holcomb 10. Forms of Disposal, Douglas J. Davies 11. Spontaneous Shrines and Public Memorialization, Sylvia Grider 12. Disaster, Modernity, and the Media, Tony Walter 13. Grief, Religion, and Spirituality, Dennis Klass Epilogue, Evan Berry About the Contributors * Index.