This book utilises a dynamic analysis of mortality to acknowledge shifts of emphasis in cultural and religious traditions.

This thesis is explored and disputed in this book in ways that mark important critical divisions. This is the first collection of essays to assess the significance of spirituality in the sociology of religion.

This book reveals how, in Scotland, as in other societies, death ways and funeral arrangements are closely related to other aspects of life, from religious beliefs to political convictions, from family relationships to class structure, from ...

This collection was published to coincide with the West End run of the Death of England trilogy which ran from July to September 2024 at London's @sohoplace.

Seventy per cent of British families now choose cremation for their funerals, a rapid change in traditional death customs. This is the first book to investigate why cremation replaced burial.