Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City

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Kit Ying Lye (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore) Terence Heng (University of Liverpool, UK)

Death and the Afterlife

Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City

Kit Ying Lye (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore), Terence Heng (University of Liverpool, UK)

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Routledge
12 June 2024

Cultural studies; Sociology: customs & traditions; Sociology: death & dying

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

"What insights can we gain from the rituals, actions, and interactions around death and the afterlife? This edited collection offers a multidisciplinary perspective on how individuals and collectives “do” death and interact with the dead.

Through case studies of Singaporean Chinese religion communities, the authors bring a myriad of knowledge and experience from eight different but interconnected disciplines to examine, map, document, and theorise the practices of death and the afterlife. Heritage here is not just a point of nostalgia or historical snapshot, but becomes a significant resource for the shaping of and grappling with diasporic and contemporary Singaporean Chinese identities. This edited collection moves beyond “western” sites of knowledge by offering a series of multidisciplinary perspectives on death practices, drawn from research with individuals, groups, and organisations that identify themselves as Singaporean Chinese, and the spaces and places often referred to as ""Chinese Singapore"".

This collection will appeal to a wide and diverse audience of scholars, students, and practitioners. In particular, key target audiences would include, but are not limited to those interested in Asia, particularly Chinese studies and Chinese migrant/diasporic communities, and scholars in sociology, history, anthropology, and social/cultural geography."

Edited by: Kit Ying Lye (Singapore University of Social Sciences Singapore), Terence Heng (University of Liverpool, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm,
Weight: 410g
ISBN: 9781032383958
ISBN 10: 103238395X
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 12 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Primary , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City-State Starting out: The Chinese Funeral in Singapore 1. Mapping Regional Variations in Contemporary Singaporean Chinese Funerals 2. Saving the Woman: Female Rituals in Chinese Funerals 3. Living Next to Ghosts: Chinese Religious Practice and Strategies for Mediating Between Human and Supernatural 4. Chanting for Liberation: One Hundred Year’s History of Chinese Buddhist Funeral Rites in Singapore 5. A Chinese Funeral at a Void Deck Death and the Practices of Death 6. De-sequestering Death in Everyday Life 7. Death, Mourning Online and Digital Remains 8. Arts Approaches to Death in Singapore: Considering Universality, Cultural Mediation, and Everyday Immersion Afterdeath, Afterlife 9. Coca Cola for the ancestor: In/Convenient food offerings during Qing Ming at Bukit Brown Cemetery 10. Chinese Reinterment Practices in Singapore 11. Mobilising and Disassembling Domestic Deathscapes

Kit Ying Lye is currently Senior Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Her research interests are mainly the Cold War in Southeast Asia, history and its remembrance, and death in Southeast Asian literature and culture, and Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming volume titled Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World. Terence Heng is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of four books, including Visual Methods in the Field (2016), Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts: Spiritual Places in Urban Spaces (2020), and Diasporas, Weddings and the Trajectories of Ethnicity (2020). His research ambulates through the intersections of cultural geography, visual sociology, and photographic practice, investigating diasporic Chinese identities, sacred space-making among Chinese Singaporeans, and visual methods.