Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Preface
Introduction Peter Berger
PART I: RITUALS
Chapter 1. The Ambiguity of Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Materializations of the Dead among the Garo of Northeast India Erik de Maaker
Chapter 2. Structures and Processes of Liminality: The Shape of Mourning among the Sora of Tribal India Piers Vitebsky
Chapter 3. Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food: Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared Peter Berger
Chapter 4. The Liminality of “Living Martyrdom”: Suicide Bombers’ Preparations for Paradise Pieter G. T. Nanninga
PART II: CONCEPTS
Chapter 5. Disappearance and Liminality: Argentina’s Mourning of State Terror Antonius C.G.M. Robben
Chapter 6. Three Dimensions of Liminality in the Context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals Roland Hardenberg
Chapter 7. Death, Ritual, and Effervescence Peter Berger
PART III: IMAGERIES
Chapter 8. Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul? Post-Mortem Initiation in Medieval Shaiva Tantric Death Rites Nina Mirnig
Chapter 9. Between Death and Judgement: Sleep as the Image of Death in Early Modern Protestantism Justin Kroesen and Jan R. Luth
Chapter 10. Body and Soul Between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece Jan N. Bremmer
Chapter 11. Death, Memory and Liminality. Rethinking Lampedusa’s Later Life as Author and Aristocrat Yme B. Kuiper
Notes on Contributors