Death in the Modern World

Written by an internationally renowned scholar in death studies, and drawing on examples from around the world, including the UK, USA, China and Japan, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. This book investigates how key factors such as money, communication technologies, economic in/security, risk, the family, religion, and war, interact in complex ways to shape people s experiences of dying and grief.

Informationen zum Autor Tony Walter is Emeritus Professor of Death Studies at the University of Bath, UK. His research into death and society has included end of life care, social networks and care, funeral practice, bereavement, spiritualism, belief in reincarnation, the idea that the dead become angels, mass media and social media, pilgrimage, and the use of human remains in exhibitions. He has lectured around the world, and has also trained clergy and funeral celebrants. His seventeen books include Funerals (1990), Pilgrimage in Popular Culture (1993), The Revival of Death (1994), The Eclipse of Eternity (1996), On Bereavement (1999), and What Death Means Now (2017). Before 1994, he was freelance, writing books and articles on religion, landscape, social security reform, and basic income. Klappentext Written by an internationally renowned scholar in death studies, and drawing on examples from around the world, including the UK, USA, China and Japan, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. This book investigates how key factors such as money, communication technologies, economic in/security, risk, the family, religion, and war, interact in complex ways to shape people's experiences of dying and grief. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: MODERNITY 1. Longevity 2. Medicine 3. Commodification 4. Communication 5. Death denial? PART II: RISK 6. Security and insecurity 7. The physical world PART III: CULTURE 8. Individual and group 9. Family 10. Religion PART IV: NATION 11. Modernizing the nation 12. War 13. Policy and politics PART V: GLOBALIZATION 14. Global flows 15. Death's futures

Autorentext

Tony Walter is Emeritus Professor of Death Studies at the University of Bath, UK. His research into death and society has included end of life care, social networks and care, funeral practice, bereavement, spiritualism, belief in reincarnation, the idea that the dead become angels, mass media and social media, pilgrimage, and the use of human remains in exhibitions. He has lectured around the world, and has also trained clergy and funeral celebrants. His seventeen books include Funerals (1990), Pilgrimage in Popular Culture (1993), The Revival of Death (1994), The Eclipse of Eternity (1996), On Bereavement (1999), and What Death Means Now (2017). Before 1994, he was freelance, writing books and articles on religion, landscape, social security reform, and basic income.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: MODERNITY

1. Longevity
2. Medicine
3. Commodification
4. Communication
5. Death denial?
   PART II: RISK
6. Security and insecurity
7. The physical world
   PART III: CULTURE
8. Individual and group
9. Family
10. Religion
    PART IV: NATION
11. Modernizing the nation
12. War
13. Policy and politics
    PART V: GLOBALIZATION
14. Global flows
15. Death's futures