Religion, Death and the Senses

ChristinaWelchis a Reader in Religious Studies at the University of Winchester. JasmineHazel Shadrackis an Adjunct Professor at the Don Wright Faculty of Music Researchand Composition, Western University, Canada.

• SeriesForewordGrahamHarvey, The Open UniversityIntroduction:Death and the SensesChristinaWelch and Jasmine Hazel ShadrackPartI: Physical SensesDeathand the Sense of MovementChapter1.KineticDeath: O’Bon: Hawai’i’s Japanese Dance of the Dead CandiCann, Baylor UniversityChapter2. Egungun – Moving the masks of our ancestorsOluTaiwo, University of WinchesterDeathand the Sense of SightChapter3. Deathin Sight: Confronting Mortality in Contemporary ArtCeliaGrace Kenny, Trinity College DublinChapter4. Images of Death and their Metamorphosis: From The Grim Reaper toSanta MuerteKateKingsbury, University of British ColumbiaDeathand the Sense of SmellChapter5. SmellingDeath: An Olfactory Account of Popular English Funeral Customs,c.1850-1920HelenFrisby, University of West of EnglandChapter6. The Sense of Smell and the Odour of DeathWendyBirch, University College LondonDeathand the Sense of SoundChapter7.”Soundingout Death” and Death and the Sense of SoundSuziGarrod, Next Steps for Living, Dying, Grieving, and ChristinaWelchChapter8. Sounding her Death Ballads: Funeral Songs as my Mother’s FinalWordsJasmineHazel ShadrackDeathand the Sense of TasteChapter9. Food for the Dead, Food for the LivingBevRogersChapter10. Tasting the DeadChristinaWelchDeathand the Sense of TouchChapter11. Craftingas a Continuing Bond: Linking Handicrafts and Lost Loved OnesEnyaHealey-Rawlings, University of WinchesterChapter12. The Sense of Touch in Relation to Working with ArchaeologicalHuman Skeletal RemainsHeidiDawson-Hobbis, Univesity of WinchesterPartII: Cultural SensesDeathand the Sense of DecencyChapter13. Displayingthe Dead with Decency: Considering Embalmed Fleshy Bodies at FuneralHomes, and De-fleshed Plastinated Corpses at BODY WORLDSLucyJacklin and Christina WelchChapter14. Body Disposal, Decency and Dark Tourism: A Case Study ApproachAlasdairRichardson, University of Winchester, and Christina WelchDeathand the Sense of HumourChapter15. Satirein the Time of a Pandemic: An Interview with Cold War SteveLauraHubner, University of WinchesterChapter16. It’snot Funny is it?: Humour as a Coping Strategy against Death byFuneral Workers in the UKAngieMcLachlanDeathand the Sense of LossChapter17. When Glaciers Die: Mourning and Memorialisation in EcologicalDevastationJonatanJuelsbo, University of WinchesterChapter18. Grave Goods as Continuing BondsKymSwan, Funeral ArrangerAfterwordGrahamHarvey