Web Extra: A Roundup of Death and the Afterlife

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Date: 27 July 2009

Credit: Gustave Doré, Creative Commons

Gary Laderman, editor of the blog Religion Dispatches, explains why three quarters of American adults believe in an afterlife, what reincarnation means, and why the way we deal with the dead reveals our image of the world to come.

Gary Laderman, author of Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America