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Death and the Afterlife

Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City
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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. 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 related 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 for 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 amongst Chinese Singaporeans, and visual methods.
Release date NZ
May 6th, 2024
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Contributors
  • Edited by Kit Ying Lye
  • Edited by Terence Heng
Illustrations
1 Tables, color; 2 Line drawings, color; 73 Halftones, color; 75 Illustrations, color
Pages
182
ISBN-13
9781032383989
Product ID
38433915

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