Virtual Afterlives - Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century

As technology changes the ways in which we experience death, this engaging study explores the culture of bereavement and the ways in which it, too, is being significantly transformed.

About the author

Candi K. Cann is assistant professor of religion in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core at Baylor University. She specializes in comparative religion, death, and bereavement and is the author of The World Religions: Essential Readings and Handbook.

Summary

Examining mourning practices in the United States in comparison to the broader background of practices in Asia and Latin America, Virtual Afterlives seeks to resituate death as a part of life and mourning as a unifying process that helps to create identities and narratives for communities.

Product details

• Authors: Assistant Professor in Religion Candi K Cann, Candi K Cann, Candi K. Cann
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2014
• EAN: 9780813145419
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-4541-9
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Material Worlds; Material Worlds
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories