Death in the Early Twenty-first Century: Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites

1. Introduction
Part I: Culture, Religion and the Uses of Tradition

2. Fear and Prayers: Negotiating with the Dead in Apiao, Chiloé (Chile)
3. Quelling the "Unquiet Dead": Popular Devotions in the Borderlands of the USSR
5. Life After Death/Life Before Death and Their Linkages: The United States, Japan, China
Part II: Personhood, Memory and Technology
5. Reincarnation, Christianity, and Controversial Coffins in Northwestern Benin
6. For the Solace of the Young and the Authority of the Old: Death Photography in Acholi, Northern Uganda
7. Mediating Mortality: Transtemporal Illness Blogs and Digital Care Work
Part III: Individual, Choice, and Identity
8. Agency and the Personalization of the Grave in Japan 9. Remembering the Dead: Agency, Authority, and Mortuary Practices in Interreligious Families in the United States