Postmortal society : towards a sociology of immortality /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Other Authors:	Jacobsen, Michael Hviid, 1971- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Series:	Studies in death, materiality and the origin of time.
Subjects:	Mortality > Social aspects. Immortalism > Social aspects. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: towards a postmortal society : paving the pathway for a sociology of immortality / Michael Hviid Jacobsen
How the dead survive
ancestors, immortality, memory / Tony Walter
The future of death and the four pathways to immortality / Guy Brown
Individualised immortality in liquid-modern times : teasing out the topic of symbolic immortality in the sociology of zygmunt bauman / Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Terror management theory : surviving the awareness of death one way or another / Uri Lifshin, Peter J. Helm and Jeff Greenberg
The immortalisation of celebrities / David Giles
The contemporary imaginary of work : symbolic immortality within the postmodern corporate discourse / Adriana Teodorescu
The neural identity : strategies of immortality in contemporary western culture / Gianfranco Pecchinenda
Toward post-human : the dream of never-ending life / Nunzia Bonfati
Digital immortality or digital death? : contemplating digital end of life planning / Carla J. Sofka, Allison Gibson and Danielle R. Silberman
The virtual concept of death / William Sims Bainbridge
The proliferation of postselves in american civic and popular cultures / Michael C. Kearl
Index.