Table of Contents:
  • Symbolic loss and the re-creation of meaning: Freud and Eliade as culture makers / Peter Homans
  • The persistence of the past: framing symbolic loss and religious studies in the context of race / Celia Brickman
  • Mourning and method in psychoanalytic studies of Indian religions / William B. Parsons
  • Melancholia and religion in French feminist theory / Diane Jonte-Pace
  • Psychologia pernnis and the academic study of mysticism / William B. Parsons
  • Mourning modern ethics on the couch / Ernest Wallwork
  • Mourning and immortality: ritual and psychoanalysis compared / Harriet Lutzky
  • Theology and mourning in film: loss and redemption in the cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski / Mary Ellen Ross
  • If silence = death, then what is life? Renewing the politics of mourning / Susan E. Henking
  • Nostalgia and the disenchantment with modernity: memory books as adaptive response to Shoah / Bertram J. Cohler
  • Conversations on Freud, memory, and loss / Paul Ricoeur; Peter Homans.