christian identity and funerary rites in nepal

The book explores and analyses funerary rite struggles in a nation where Christian and Hindu, Buddhist and Traditionalist members, who go through traumatic raises questions of social, psychological and religious identity for Christian converts, which are particularly acute after a death in their family. Using empirical research, the focus is on the question of adaptation and identity in relation to church life, within the familial and social sphere of individual Christians and within the wider society in which they live, particularly with reference to death and disposal.