Main description:

Examines how digital media and the creation of digital immortals may affect religious understandings of death and the afterlife; Understands the impact of digital media on those living and those working with the bereaved; Explores the impact of digital memorialisation post death; Looks at the ways in which digital media may be changing conceptions and theologies of death

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Chapter 1 Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual realm

Chapter 2 Religion and Afterlife

Chapter 3 Impact of the digital on the bereaved

Chapter 4 Digital Theologies and Death

Chapter 5 Death Spaces

Chapter 6 A Good Digital Death

Chapter 7 Death and the Liminal

Chapter 8 Symbols and Memorialization

Chapter 9 Perspectives on Digital Afterlife

Chapter 10 Digital Legacy

Chapter 11 Ambivalence and Spectacle

Chapter 12 The Final Cut

References

Glossary

Index