Below I recount [a] story of death and repatriation in times of Covid-19, not in the voyeuristic manner of mainstream…
Dust to dust: A religion of return migration
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Death interrupted: Mourning across borders in the wake of Covid-19
Acknowledging the vast diversity of migratory trajectories around the world, I see important commonalities in the experience of what I…
Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place
This forum initiates a conversation on the meaning and consequences of death across societies and time periods, drawing together scholars…
A wedding in a cemetery: Judaism, terror, and pandemic
American Jews have no scapegoats or sacrificial lambs to offer in response to Covid-19 nor desire to hold a shvartze…
Practices of relation: Fernando and Harding
In this exchange, Mayanthi Fernando and Susan Harding reflect on the norms and taboos of the secular academy and on…
Pine knot woman
The family selection specialist described Mrs. Barclay as “a thin person of the ‘pine knot’ variety.” Was it her own…
Devout death
Marno's argument about the philosophical import of holy attention puts death in a curious position. Death becomes a cognitive problem…
The soft side
“Is this all there is?” can have practical meaning, e.g., “I asked for two dozen eggs, and you have only…
Attention and distraction, prayer and poetry
What is holy attention? Does its holiness have to do with the manner with which one attends, the object of…
Where I’m going
I have, on the whole, avoided studying or teaching about death, intent on showing my students that there is more…