The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife

Organizado por Candi Cann (Baylor University), The Routledge Handbook of Death and The Afterlife (“O Manual de Roteiro de Morte e da Vida Após a Morte”, em tradução literal) é um guia extensivo sobre atitudes perante a morte e seus espaços. Renato Cymbalista (FAU-USP) escreve com Aline Santos o capítulo (Re)framing sites of the dead in Brazil, que trata de apropriações recentes de sítios de morte, sepultamento e deposição de cinzas em São Paulo.

Part I: The Study of Dying, Death and Grief: An Overview
Chapter 1: Introduction by Candi K. Cann
Chapter 2: State of the Field of Death in the United States by George E. Dickinson
Chapter 3: Brain Death and the Politics of Religion by Donald Joralemon
Chapter 4: Understanding Grief: Theoretical Perspectives by Kenneth J. Doka
Part II: Disposal of the Dead: Past, Present and Future
Chapter 5: Symbolizing Imperial Affiliation in Death: Case Studies from the Inka Empire (AD 1400-1532) by Colleen Zori
Chapter 6: The Romanian Orthodox Church and Issues of Cremation by Marius Rotar
Chapter 7: Reframing Sites of the Dead in Brazil by Renato Cymbalista & Aline Silva Santos
Chapter 8: Stand By Me: The Fear of Solitary Death and the Need for Social Bonds in Contemporary Japan by Chikako Ozawa-de-Silva
Chapter 9: Politics of Death and Mortuary Rituals in Trinidadian Hinduism by Priyanka Ramlakhan
Chapter 10: The Right to be Dead: Designing Future Cemeteries by Jakob Borrits Sabra & John Troyer
Part III: Representations of Death: Narratives and Rhetoric
Chapter 11: Post-Mortem (2010): Saint Salvador Allende and Historical Autopsy by Moisés Park
Chapter 12: Mourning Deaths and Constructing Afterlives in the Red Army at War by Steven G. Jug
Chapter 13: Corpses That Preach: Óscar Romero and the Martyred Priests of El Salvador by Mandy Rodgers-Gates
Chapter 14: Photographing Human Finitude: Philosophical Reflections on Photographs of Death by Mathew A. Crawford
Chapter 15: De Imago to Word: The Exile of the Dead from Parish Symbolism in Reformation England by Lacy K. Crocker Papadakis
Part IV: Youth Meets Death: A Juxtaposition
Chapter 16: The Comprehension of Death and Afterlife in Children by Ramiro Tau
Chapter 17: The Effects of Parental Death on Religiosity within an American Context by Renae Wilkinson
Chapter 18: Ashes to Ashes: Continuing Bonds in Young Adulthood in the Netherlands by Renske Visser
Part V: Questionable Deaths and Afterlives: Suicide, Ghosts & Avatars
Chapter 19: Exeunt: The Question of Suicide at the Origin of Early Christianity by Michael J. Thate
Chapter 20: How Not to Become A Ghost: Tales of Female Suicide Martyrs in Sixteenth-Century Vietnamese ‘Transmissions of Marvels’ (truyền kỳ) by Cuong T. Mai
Chapter 21: The Cat Came Back: Revenant Pets and the Paranormal Everyday by Sara Knox
Chapter 22: From Ancestors to Avatars: Transfiguring the Afterlife by Jenny Huberman
Part VI: Material Corpses and Imagined Afterlives Around the World
Chapter 23: From the Underworld of Yama to the Island of Gems: Concepts of Afterlife in Hinduism by June McDaniel
Chapter 24: A Broad Survey of Zulu Ancestor Veneration and the Challenges it Faces by Radikobo Ntsimane
Chapter 25: Death and Life in a Pluralistic Society: Boundary-Making and Boundary-Crossing in Sino-Burmese-Tibetan Borderlands by Keping Wu
Chapter 26: Viking Death: Pre-Christian Rites of Passage and Funerary Feasting by Davide Zori
Chapter 27: Death, Resurrection and the World to Come: Jewish Views on Death and Afterlife by Nicholas R. Werse
Chapter 28: The Afterlife and Death: An Islamic Perspective by David Oualaalou
Chapter 29: Coffins, Candles, and Cameras—Aspects of Brazilian Funerals from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century by Andréia Martins
Chapter 30: Buying an Afterlife: Mapping Religious Beliefs through Consumer Death Goods by Candi K. Cann