Death and Dying
Telling Silence
Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening.
The Coming Death
Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema.
Writing Widowhood
Explores how memoirs of widowhood can help us understand the reality of bereavement and the critical role of writing and reading in recovery.
Religious Understandings of a Good Death in Hospice Palliative Care
Explores how religious understandings of death are experienced in hospice care.
Becoming an Ancestor
A striking look at the death rituals of an indigenous community in North America.
Final Acts
Analyzes contemporary memoirs of terminal illness from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Literary Remains
Explores Victorian responses to death and burial in literature, journalism, and legal writing.
Death in the Classroom
Shows how death education can be brought from the healing professions to the literature classroom.
Changes of Mind
An original theory of the development of consciousness that brings together research from neurology, new-paradigm studies, psychology, and mysticism.
Mysticism, Death and Dying
This book charts the borderline between the nocturnal side of mysticism and the luminous side of death and it illuminates their paradoxical affinities. Within a culture of both denial and despair, it ...
The Life of Illness
The Life of Illness tells the story of one woman's courageous struggle with kidney failure, illness, and death. It is, however, a book about life, hope, faith, and the transformative power of caring for ...