Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City by Ki

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What insights can we gain from the rituals, actions and interactions around death and the afterlife? This edited collection offers a multidisciplinary perspective of how individuals and collectives "do" death and interact with the dead.

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What insights can we gain from the rituals, actions, and interactions around death and the afterlife? This edited collection offers a multidisciplinary perspective on how individuals and collectives "do" death and interact with the dead.Through case studies of Singaporean Chinese religion communities, the authors bring a myriad of knowledge and experience from eight different but interconnected disciplines to examine, map, document, and theorise the practices of death and the afterlife. Heritage here is not just a point of nostalgia or historical snapshot, but becomes a significant resource for the shaping of and grappling with diasporic and contemporary Singaporean Chinese identities. This edited collection moves beyond "western" sites of knowledge by offering a series of multidisciplinary perspectives on death practices, drawn from research with individuals, groups, and organisations that identify themselves as Singaporean Chinese, and the spaces and places often referred to as "Chinese Singapore".This collection will appeal to a wide and diverse audience of scholars, students, and practitioners. In particular, key target audiences would include, but are not limited to those interested in Asia, particularly Chinese studies and Chinese migrant/diasporic communities, and scholars in sociology, history, anthropology, and social/cultural geography.

Author Biography

Kit Ying Lye is currently Senior Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Her research interests are mainly the Cold War in Southeast Asia, history and its remembrance, and death in Southeast Asian literature and culture, and Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming volume titled Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World.Terence Heng is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of four books, including Visual Methods in the Field (2016), Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts: Spiritual Places in Urban Spaces (2020), and Diasporas, Weddings and the Trajectories of Ethnicity (2020). His research ambulates through the intersections of cultural geography, visual sociology, and photographic practice, investigating diasporic Chinese identities, sacred space-making among Chinese Singaporeans, and visual methods.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City-StateStarting out: The Chinese Funeral in Singapore1. Mapping Regional Variations in Contemporary Singaporean Chinese Funerals2. Saving the Woman: Female Rituals in Chinese Funerals3. Living Next to Ghosts: Chinese Religious Practice and Strategies for Mediating Between Human and Supernatural 4. Chanting for Liberation: One Hundred Year's History of Chinese Buddhist Funeral Rites in Singapore5. A Chinese Funeral at a Void DeckDeath and the Practices of Death6. De-sequestering Death in Everyday Life7. Death, Mourning Online and Digital Remains8. Arts Approaches to Death in Singapore: Considering Universality, Cultural Mediation, and Everyday ImmersionAfterdeath, Afterlife9. Coca Cola for the ancestor: In/Convenient food offerings during Qing Ming at Bukit Brown Cemetery10. Chinese Reinterment Practices in Singapore11. Mobilising and Disassembling Domestic Deathscapes

Details ISBN103238395X Author Terence Heng Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Routledge Advances in Sociology Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781032383958 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Subtitle Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781032383989 Edited by Terence Heng Illustrations 1 Tables, color; 2 Line drawings, color; 73 Halftones, color; 75 Illustrations, color DEWEY 306.9095 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education ISBN-10 103238395X Pages 206 Publication Date 2024-06-12 UK Release Date 2024-06-12 We've got this

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