MORT 3371: Funeral Service Rites, Customs and Ceremonies

Health Sciences & other databases for death/dying & cultures/religions

Selected Books from the University Libraries collection

• Parkes, C., Laungani, P., Young, B., Taylor & Francis, & Ebrary, Inc. (2016). Death and bereavement across cultures (Second ed.). New York: Routledge.
• Robben, A.. (2018). Death, mourning, and burial : A cross-cultural reader (Second ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
• Selin, H., Rakoff, R.. (2019). Death across cultures : Death and dying in non-Western cultures (Science across cultures v. 9). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
• Laqueur, T. (2015). The work of the dead : A cultural history of mortal remains. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Betsinger, Scott, Tsaliki, Murphy, Betsinger, Tracy K, Scott, Amy B, & Tsaliki, Anastasia. (2020). The odd, the unusual, and the strange bioarchaeological explorations of atypical burials (Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past). Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

Online Resources

• Cultural and Religious Funeral Customs
• Death and Burial Rituals in World Religions
• Death, Funeral, Requiem -- Orthodox Christian Traditions, Customs and Practice
• Funeral Customs by Religion, Ethnicity and Culture
• Funeral Etiquette: At the service
• Muslim Funeral Traditions
• A Guide to a Proper Buddhist Funeral
• Jewish Funerals, Burial & Mourning
• Religious Funeral Customs
• Transition Rituals: A Faith By Faith Guide to Rites for the Deceased
• A Complete Guide to Traditional Chinese Funeral Customs
• Islamic Funeral Guide
• Symbolism on Gravestones (Association for Gravestone Studies)
• Cemetery Symbolism 

Videos

• 25 Unbelievable Burial Practices That Actually Exist

• Jewish Guide to Shiva Practices and Helping Your Friend in Mourning

• Catholic Funeral Rites

• Islamic Funeral Rites

• 6 Unusual Funeral Ceremonies