Contemporary practice: Japan

Boret, S. 2017

‘Agency and the personalization of the grave in Japan’, in S. Boret, S. Long and S. Kan (eds) Death in the Early 21st Century: Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites, Palgrave Macmillan, 217-254.

Rowe, M. 2011

Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism, Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract