The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying

Christopher M. Moreman is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies at California State University, East Bay, USA.

List of Contributors



Introduction – Christopher M. Moreman



Section 1: Religious Approaches to Death and the Afterlife



1. Catholic Views of the Afterlife – Diana Walsh Pasulka



2. Protestant Views of the Afterlife – Mark S. Sweetnam



3. Mormon Views of the Afterlife – Daniel Belnap



4. Christian Funerary Traditions – Thomas G. Long



5. Jewish Views of the Afterlife – Dan Cohn-Sherbok



6. Jewish Funeral and Mourning Practices – Vanessa L. Ochs



7. Muslim Views of the Afterlife – David Cook



8. Funerary Culture in Islam – Amila Buturovic



9. Zoroastrian Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Almut Hintze



10. Sikh Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Arvind-Pal S. Mandair



11. Hindu Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – T. S. Rukmani



12. Jaina Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Peter Flügel



13. Theravāda Buddhist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Rachelle M. Scott



14. Tibetan Buddhist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Matthew T. Kapstein



15. Shinto and Death: From Cultural Roots to Contemporary Thought – Stuart D. B. Picken



16. Early Chinese Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Mu-chou Poo



17. Contemporary Daoist Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices – Adeline Herrou



18. North American Indigenous Afterlife Beliefs – Joseph A. P. Wilson



19. African Afterlife Beliefs – Zayin Cabot



20. Overcoming Death in New Religious Movements – Susan J. Palmer



21. Afterlife Beliefs in the Spiritualist Movement – Walter Meyer zu Erpen



22. Death and the Afterlife in the Raëlian Religion – Erik A. W. Östling & James R. Lewis



Section 2: General Beliefs and Practices



23. Heavens and Hells – Eileen Gardiner



24. Reincarnation – James A. Santucci



25. Mysticism – Thomas Quartier



26. The American Cemetery – Albert N. Hamscher



27. Cremation – Douglas J. Davies



28. Mummification – Heather Gill-Frerking



29. Digital Memorial – Candi K. Cann



Section 3: Liminal States and Liminal Beings



30. Near-Death Experiences – Gregory Shushan



31. Past-life Memories – Jim B. Tucker



32. Ghosts – Owen Davies



33. Angels – John Charles Arnold & Tony Walter



34. The Undead: Vampires and Zombies – John Edgar Browning



35. Animals – Barbara R. Ambros & Laura Hobgood



36. Organ Donation and Spirit Possession – Lesley A. Sharp



Section 4: On Dying



37. Defining Medical Death – James L. Bernat



38. The Death Awareness Movement – Lucy Bregman



39. Conceptual Approaches to Understanding the Dying Process – Kenneth J. Doka



40. The Cross-Cultural Study of Grief – Dennis Klass



41. A "Good Death" in Hospice Palliative Care – Harold Coward & Elizabeth Causton



42. Assisted Dying – Paul Badham



Section 5: Additional Ethical Considerations



43. Suicide: Psychopathology, Existential Choice, or Religious/Cultural Influences – Mark M. Leach & Frederick T. L. Leong



44. Martyrdom – Paul Middleton



45. The Psychology of Mass Murder and Serial Killing – Katherine Ramsland



46. Abortion – Daniel C. Maguire



47. Intellectual Disability and the End of Life