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.

Maggi Savin-Baden is Professor of Education at the University of Worcester and has researched and evaluated staff and student experience of learning for over 20 years and gained funding in this area (Leverhulme Trust, JISC, Higher Education Academy, MoD). She has a strong publication record of over 50 research publications and 17 books which reflect her research interests on the impact of innovative learning, digital fluency, cyber-influence, pedagogical agents, qualitative research methods, and problem-based learning. In her spare time, she runs, bakes, climbs and attempts triathlons.

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Chapter 1 Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual realm

Chapter 2 Religion and Afterlife

Chapter 3 Impact of the digital on the bereaved

Chapter 4 Digital Theologies and Death

Chapter 5 Death Spaces

Chapter 6 A Good Digital Death

Chapter 7 Death and the Liminal

Chapter 8 Symbols and Memorialization

Chapter 9 Perspectives on Digital Afterlife

Chapter 10 Digital Legacy

Chapter 11 Ambivalence and Spectacle

Chapter 12 The Final Cut

References

Glossary

Index