The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown t

Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race

In this volume, the author explores how modern American funerals and their accompanying rituals have evolved into affairs that help the living with the healing

Portrayals of death and the dead are everywhere within popular culture revealing much about contemporary society’s engagement with mortality. Drawing upon cel

Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. It i