Contemporary practices: Caribbean

Bissessar, A. 2024

‘The changing burial rites, rituals and practices of a transplanted population: the funeral rites of the Hindu population in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana’, in C. Huggins, A.M. Bissessar & G.M. Hinkson (eds) (2024) Post-colonial Burial and Grieving Rituals of the Caribbean, Springer, 101-112.

Huggins, C. & Hinkson, G. 2017

‘Contemporary burial practices in three Carribean islands among Christians of African decent’, OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 80:2, 266-279.

Mungal-Bissessar, V. 2024

‘Funeral and burial practices of Spiritual Baptists in Trinidad and Tobago and St. Vincent’, in C. Huggins, A.M. Bissessar, & G.M. Hinkson, G.M. (eds) Post-colonial Burial and Grieving Rituals of the Caribbean, Cham: Springer, 25-38.

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