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Title Postmortal society : towards a sociology of immortality / edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen.
Publisher London : Routledge, 2017.

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Description xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9781472485588 hardback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: towards a postmortal society : paving the pathway for a sociology of immortality / Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- How the dead survive - ancestors, immortality, memory / Tony Walter -- The future of death and the four pathways to immortality / Guy Brown -- Individualised immortality in liquid-modern times : teasing out the topic of symbolic immortality in the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman / Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- Terror management theory : surviving the awareness of death one way or another / Uri Lifshin, Peter J. Helm and Jeff Greenberg -- The immortalisation of celebrities / David Giles -- The contemporary imaginary of work : symbolic immortality within the postmodern corporate discourse / Adriana Teodorescu -- The neural identity : strategies of immortality in contemporary Western culture / Gianfranco Pecchinenda -- Toward post-human : the dream of never-ending life / Nunzia Bonfati -- Digital immortality or digital death? : contemplating digital end of life planning / Carla J. Sofka, Allison Gibson and Danielle R. Silberman -- The virtual concept of death / William Sims Bainbridge -- The proliferation of postselves in American civic and popular cultures / Michael C. Kearl.
Series Studies in death, materiality and the origin of time.
Library Class Soc Sci D840
Subject Mortality -- Social aspects.
Immortalism -- Social aspects.
Other Author Jacobsen, Michael Hviid, 1971- editor.

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