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<<0.2 Contents>> Acknowledgments Introduction Kathleen Garces-Foley Part I. Religious Approaches to Death The Politics of Death and Burial in Native California Dennis F. Kelley Living with the Dead: Contemporary Hindu Approaches to Death Mark Elmore Judaism and Death: Finding Meaning in Ritual Rebecca Golbert Buddhism and Death Robert Goss and Dennis Klass Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox Approaches to Death Lizette Larson-Miller Protestant Approaches to Death Glenn Lucke and Richard B. Gilbert with Ronald K. Barrett Muslim Ways of Death Juan Eduardo Campo Dying and Death in Sikhism Kristina Myrvold Part II. Death in Contemporary Societies Contemporary American Funerals: Personalizing Tradition Kathleen Garces-Foley and Justin S. Holcomb Forms of Disposal Douglas J. Davies Spontaneous Shrines and Public Memorialization Sylvia Grider Disaster, Modernity, and the Media Tony Walter Grief, Religion, and Spirituality Dennis Klass Epilogue Evan Berry About the Authors
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Death -- Religious aspects.