Shattered Grief - How the Pandemic Transformed the Spirituality of Death in America

Shattered Grief is an intimate portrait of how COVID-19 changed the ways Americans approach, understand, and mourn death.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Research Interlocutors and Conversation Partners
Introduction: In a Barbecue Parking Lot
1. Ritual
2. Community
3. Narrative
4. Trauma
Conclusion: Taking the Book of Job Seriously
Appendix: Notes on Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Natasha L. Mikles is an assistant professor at Texas State University. Her research interests revolve around lived interpretations of death, mourning, and the afterlife in diverse religious traditions ranging from contemporary American spirituality to nineteenth-century Tibetan Buddhism.

Summary

Shattered Grief is an intimate portrait of how COVID-19 changed the ways Americans approach, understand, and mourn death.

Product details

• Authors: Natasha L. Mikles
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.2024
• EAN: 9780231211475
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21147-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; USA, RELIGION / Spirituality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Spirituality & religious experience, United States of America, USA, Social impact of disasters, Spirituality and religious experience, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made), social science; reliion; self-help