Death, Society, and Human Experience: Edition 13
About this ebook
Originally written by Robert Kastenbaum, a renowned scholar who developed one of the world’s first death education courses, Christopher M. Moreman, who has worked in the field of death studies for two decades, has updated this edition. In addition to infusing his close areas of focus, both in afterlife beliefs and experiences and how these might affect how people live their lives, he’s weaved in new coverage of current affairs, including:
- The impact of COVID-19 on experiences of death, bereavement, mourning, and more
- Expanded legalization of physician-assisted dying in the United States and several countries
- Changes in bereavement rituals and traditions stemming from technology use and social media
With additional content and classroom extensions available online, Death, Society, and Human Experience remains a thoughtful, exploratory, and impressively comprehensive overview for undergraduate and graduate courses in death, dying, and bereavement.
About the author
Robert Kastenbaum (1932–2013) was Professor of Communications at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. His other books include The Psychology of Death (1972, 1990, 2000), Dorian, Graying: Is Youth the Only Thing Worth Having? (1995), and On Our Way: The Final Passage through Life and Death (2004).
Christopher M. Moreman is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at California State University East Bay, Hayward, California. He has written and edited influential books on topics related to death and dying. He is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying (2017), the author of Beyond the Threshold: Afterlife Beliefs and Experiences in World Religions (2017), Dharma of the Dead: Zombies, Mortality, and Buddhist Philosophy (2018), and the editor of the three-volume series titled The Spiritualist Movement (2013).
