The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Contemporary practice: United States
Long, S. & Buehring, S. 2017
‘Remembering the dead: agency, authority and mortuary practices in interreligious families in the United States’, in S. Boret, S. Long and S. Kan (eds) Death in the Early 21st Century: Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites, Palgrave Macmillan, 255-289.
McIlwain, C. 2003
Death in Black and White: Death, Ritual and Family Ecology, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.