{"title":"Afterword: urbanity and the afterlife of death","authors":"A. Sun","doi":"10.1080/13576275.2022.2063532","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article addresses the theoretical issues regarding rituals of death and the “afterlife of death” in urban life. Through an analysis of the five articles in this special issue on “Death and the City” that examine how death is controlled as a necessary component of urban social order, I suggest these case studies shed light not only on the essential technologies of social rules and polices regarding death, but they also reveal important truths about how humans join the material reality of death to death’s metaphysical meaning, or the “afterlife of death.”","PeriodicalId":40045,"journal":{"name":"Mortality","volume":"27 1","pages":"222 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mortality","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2022.2063532","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This article addresses the theoretical issues regarding rituals of death and the “afterlife of death” in urban life. Through an analysis of the five articles in this special issue on “Death and the City” that examine how death is controlled as a necessary component of urban social order, I suggest these case studies shed light not only on the essential technologies of social rules and polices regarding death, but they also reveal important truths about how humans join the material reality of death to death’s metaphysical meaning, or the “afterlife of death.”
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A foremost international, interdisciplinary journal that has relevance both for academics and professionals concerned with human mortality. Mortality is essential reading for those in the field of death studies and in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, art, classics, history, literature, medicine, music, socio-legal studies, social policy, sociology, philosophy, psychology and religious studies. The journal is also of special interest and relevance for those professionally or voluntarily engaged in the health and caring professions, in bereavement counselling, the funeral industries, and in central and local government.
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