Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual Realm
- Length: 240 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
- Publication Date: 2021-11-26
- ISBN-10: 0367564629
- ISBN-13: 9780367564629
- Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)
Few religious leaders have examined the potential for the positive impact of digital media and digital immortality creation in religious contexts. It is evident that there have been recent moves away from traditional funeral services focusing on the transition of the deceased into the future world beyond, towards a rise of memorial content within funerals and commemorative events. This has heralded shifts in afterlife beliefs by replacing them, to all intents and purposes, by attitudes to this life.
Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual Realm explores the ways in which digital media and digital afterlife creation affects social and religious understandings of death and the afterlife.
Key Features:
- Understands the impact of digital media on those living and those working with the bereaved.
- Explores the impact of digital memorialisation post death.
- Examines ways in which digital media may be changing conceptions and theologies of death.
For many people digital afterlife and the spiritual realm largely remains an area that is both inchoate and confusing. This book will begin to unravel some of this bafflement.
Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Quote Dedication Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Permissions Introduction Chapter 1 Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual Realm Introduction Overview Forms of Immortality Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual Realm Places, Relationships and the Spiritual Realm Spiritual Places Spiritual Relationships Spiritual Beings Conclusion Chapter 2 Religion and Afterlife Introduction Meanings Religious Perspectives on Life after Death Buddhism Christianity Hinduism Humanism Islam Judaism Sikhism Practices Funeral Practices and Rituals Consumer Death Goods And Vinyly EverWith Space Burials Grave Goods Conclusion Chapter 3 Impact of the Digital on the Bereaved Introduction Models of Grief Continuing Bonds Dual Process Grieving Orientation to Network Grief Digital Grief Concepts and Digital Grief Practices Unintended Consequences Bandwagon Mourning Emotional Rubberneckers Memorial Trolling Digital Death Photography Grief Policing Long-Term Impact on the Bereaved The Power of Technology Providers Deletion and Second Loss and Non-Deletion Death Announcements by Others Recommendations Grief and Bereavement in Virtual Spaces GriefNet End-of-Life Video Conferencing Cybertherapy Conclusion Chapter 4 Digital Theologies and Theologies of Death Introduction Digital Theologies and Theologies of Death Digital Theologies Theologies of Death and Eschatology Eschatology Religion and Media Media as Conduit Media as a Mode of Knowing Media as a Social Institution Artificial Intelligence and Digital Afterlife Digital Afterlife and Theology Digital Afterlife Is Compatible with Religion Digital Afterlife Is Not Religious at All Digital Afterlife Contributes to a New Kind of Religion Conclusion Chapter 5 Death Spaces Introduction Places and Spaces Spatial Practice Representations of Space Representational Spaces Burial Spaces Conflict in the Graveyard Taboos and Burial Bodies and Burial Digital Death Spaces Mourning Spaces: Genres of Participation Hanging Out Exploration Geeking Out and the Use of Expertise New Death Spaces Interrogating Death Spaces Conclusion Chapter 6 A Good Digital Death Introduction Bad Death A Good Death Characteristics of a Good Digital Death Planning Preservation Mediation Transference Taboos The Evolving Digital Dead Conclusion Chapter 7 Death and the Liminal Introduction Liminality Feeling Lost Moratorium Status Role Shift Dissent Retreat Postponement Temporizing Avoidance Engagement Death, Liminality and Afterlife Spiritual Spaces and Thin Spaces Anticipated Death and Near-death Experiences Conclusion Chapter 8 Symbols and Memorialization Introduction Symbols of Death and Spirituality Crosses and Angels Emojis Skulls and Scythes, Clocks and Candles Semiotics and Spirituality Memorialization Photographs and Presencing Roadside Memorials Cenotaphization Ghost Bikes Underwater Reefs Cremation Tattoos Death Masks Social Media Mourning Virtual Graveyards Memorialization in Virtual Worlds Tellership Deathtainment Hyper-mourning Virtual Veneration Virtual Pages of Remembrance Digital Memorialization Following Suicide Continuing and Communal Bonds Conclusion Chapter 9 Perspectives on Digital Afterlife Introduction Technology, Belief and Practice Perspectives on Digital Afterlife Data Collection – The Interviews Analysis and Interpretation Death Meanings and Practices Memorialization Theology and Persistence Digital Afterlife: Understandings and Perspectives The Arrival of Postdigital Theologies? Conclusion Chapter 10 Digital Legacy Introduction Digital Legacy Digital Remains Digital Assets Digital Traces Digital Endurance Ownership and Privacy Digital Estate Planning and the Death-tech Industry Death-tech Sites Empathy Lifenaut Daden Recordmenow App Aura Elixir Ankhlabs Iteranl.life Heaven Address Digital Immortality Now Ethical Responsibility The Location of the Dead Left-Behind Identities and Information Family Decisions and Conflict Conclusion Chapter 11 Ambivalence and Spectacle Introduction Ambivalence and Spectacle Commercialization and Crowdfunding Transitional Objects and Ambivalent Devices Dark Tourism Thanatopathia and Thanatopolitcs Conclusion Chapter 12 The Final Cut Introduction The Final Cut Absent Presence The Digital Death Pragmeme Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual Realm Reflection References Glossary Index
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