Death and Religion in a Changing World - 9780367649302

Taylor & Francis

Death and Religion in a Changing WorldAuthor(s): Kathleen Garces-Foley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367649302, 978-0367649302\nSynopsis\nDeath and Religion in a Changing World is a comprehensive and accessible study of the intersection of death and religion, examining how everyday people enact religious responses to death in the twenty-first century. \n\nWith contributions from leading religious studies scholars, this book moves away from the fields focus on traditional beliefs to explore how religious traditions evolve in relation to their changing social contexts. Employing an ethnographic approach, Death and Religion in a Changing World further details how people from a wide variety of religious traditions and people without religious affiliation draw on and adapt religious practices as they respond to death in modern societies. \n\nEvery chapter in this second edition has been thoroughly updated and new c.