Introduction / Kathleen Garces-Foley
1. politics of death and burial in native California / Dennis F. Kelley
2. Contemporary Hindu approaches to death : living with the dead / Mark Elmore
3. Judaism and death : finding meaning in ritual / Rebecca Golbert
4. Buddhisms and death / Robert E. Goss and Dennis Klass
5. Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox approaches to death / Lizette Larson-Miller
6. Protestant approaches to death : overcoming death's sting / Glenn Lucke, Richard B. Gilbert and Ronald K. Barrett
7. Muslim ways to death : between the prescribed and the performed / Juan Eduardo Campo
8. Sikhism and death / Kristina Myrvold
9. Contemporary American funerals : personalizing tradition / Kathleen Garces-Foley and Justin S. Holcomb
10. Forms of disposal / Douglas J. Davies
11. Spontaneous shrines and public memorialization / Slyvia Grider
12. Disaster, modernity, and the media / Tony Walter
13. Grief, religion, and spirituality / Dennis Klass
